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Cleveland Browns Stallworth kills pedestrian in Florida while driving


From Huffington Post:

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth hit and killed a pedestrian with his Bentley on Saturday morning on a busy causeway linking Miami and Miami Beach, police said.

Stallworth was headed toward the beach when he hit Mario Reyes, 59, around 7 a.m., said Miami Beach police spokesman Juan Sanchez. Reyes was taken to a nearby trauma center, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. He was near a crosswalk but it’s not clear if he was crossing legally.

Stallworth, 28, was cooperating and no charges have been filed, Sanchez said. Officers drew blood to test for drugs or alcohol, which is routine. Sanchez said results from the test could take anywhere from three days to three weeks.

Here’s the cleveland.com story, mostly the same as the AP.

The Browns’ statement:

“We are aware of the incident involving Donte Stallworth and have been in contact with his representatives,” the Browns said in a statement released this afternoon. “We understand the seriousness of this situation, but will not have any further comment at this time as this is an ongoing investigation.”

[Edited out link to overly salacious blogger post on the incident.]

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:27 pm March 14th, 2009 in Cleveland+, Law, Sports 

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2 Responses to “Cleveland Browns Stallworth kills pedestrian in Florida while driving”

  1. 1 anastasia on March 14th, 2009 7:34 pm

    Whatever. I’m sure this will crowd out real news for weeks. But did you really have to link to a blogger who says, without apparent basis, that the guy he killed was probably an illegal alien? This sort of right-wing knee-jerk demonizing of anyone with a Hispanic name is getting really tiresome.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on March 14th, 2009 7:38 pm

    When you are right, you are right -I removed that link.

    I actually don’t know how much news space it’s going to get – I was browsing HuffPo and that’s where I saw it. When I tried to find something other than the AP story, there was nothing – not a thing. The PD didn’t even have anything indexed – I had to go directly to cleveland.com to see if they’d posted something but it’s basically the same as the AP.

    Does the PD have anyone on the board or other management entities of the Browns? ;) Might actually end up being more of a blackout of news because of the negative impact?

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