The on-to-the-next-one mentality that has allowed him to make it from tiny Gadsden, Ala., to Paul Brown Stadium can’t help the Bengals cornerback move beyond what occurred early Friday on a strip of Interstate 75 in Cincinnati. That’s where three people perished in a horrific car accident.
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Kirkpatrick feels as though he could have prevented it.
Just before the fatal wreck, the fifth-year pro out of Alabama sat with his friend, 30-year-old Kory Wilson, known on the Cincinnati rap scene by his stage name — Kalyko — at a local night spot. Later, Wilson would drive his SUV the wrong way down the interstate, causing a collision that would take his own life as well as those of husband and wife Nazih and Halla Odeh Shteiw, according to Cincinnati.com.
Listen to the 911 call below.
Kirkpatrick took to Twitter to express grief and regret.
