Newly released 911 calls revealed Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins’ wife, Kalabrya Haskins, asked a dispatcher to find her husband, who was walking on a Florida highway to get gas before he was fatally hit by a dump truck, according to The Washington Post.
On the morning of April 9 in Fort Lauderdale, Haskins, 24, was on Interstate 595 when a dump truck struck the athlete, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Haskins died at the scene, ABC News reports.
Calling from her Pittsburgh home, Kalabrya told the 911 dispatcher that her husband promised to call her when he was finished, but she never received a call, The Washington Post reports.
“I just want somebody to go in the area and see if his car is there, if he’s okay and if anything happened to him,” Kalabrya told the dispatcher. “That’s just not like him for him not to call me back and for his phone to go dead. He was stranded by himself. He was walking, though.”
Kalabrya, fearing the worst, choked up while speaking to the dispatcher.
“All right, so I don’t want you to panic, but I’m going to be honest with you,” the dispatcher told Kalabrya. “We do have an incident.”
Kalabrya described her husband’s appearance and his clothes to the dispatcher. She later asked if the dispatcher could clarify details of the “incident” and if it involved a pedestrian walking along the highway.
“It’s not because — I can’t confirm that,” the dispatcher said. “I will confirm that there was an accident on the highway.”
The dispatcher wrote Kalabrya’s contact information and told her to stay close to her phone for updates on the situation.
Authorities released other 911 calls of witnesses who saw Dwayne get hit by the truck and reported seeing his body on the highway, ABC News reports.
Dwayne, along with his Steelers teammates, was in Florida for training, according to ESPN.
“I want to thank everyone for their continuous outpour of kindness and love for my husband during this extremely difficult time,” Kalabrya Haskins said in a statement, ABC News reports.
Memorial services are planned for Friday in Pittsburgh, followed by a funeral on Saturday in New Jersey, where Haskins was born. On Sunday, another service is set for Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, where he attended high school and played football.