Lawsuit filed by former Steelers QB Haskins’ widow, who claims he was targeted, drugged before death
On the morning of April 9, 2022, Kalaybra Haskins began frantically calling 911, telling the operator her husband, former Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins, was stranded on the side of the road and had to walk to get gas.
Kalaybra Haskins was heard explaining the situation. “I’m calling because my husband was stuck on the side of the highway. He had to go walk and get gas,” she tells a 911 operator. “I kept calling and kept calling, but he wouldn’t answer.”
She explains to the operator that she’s calling from Pittsburgh and had been on the phone with her husband when his phone went dead.
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“I just want somebody to go in the area and see if his car’s there if he’s Ok if anything happens to him,” she asks the operator. “It’s not like him for him not to call me back and for his phone to go dead and he is stranded by himself.”
“I don’t want you to panic, but I’m going, to be honest with you, we do have an incident on the highway, but I can’t confirm if that’s your husband or not,” the 911 operator responds.
Sadly, Haskins was hit and killed by a dump truck along a Florida highway.
Now, almost exactly one year later, a lawsuit filed by his wife is claiming foul play. It names 14 people or businesses that the lawsuit accuses of contributing to her husband’s death.
According to the lawsuit, the tread on the tires of the dump truck that hit Haskins was not in good condition, nor were the brakes, and allegedly it was carrying overweight cargo.
But, according to court documents, those details were not the most shocking detail in this wide-ranging lawsuit.
Among those listed in the lawsuit are the driver and the owner of the dump truck that hit Haskins, the company that provided his rental car, the nightclubs, and other businesses where he went before he died.
But it also names four people and accuses them of deliberately drugging Haskins: Joey Smith, Karlee Peyton, Meriem Yassine and Wissal Yassine.
Despite a medical examiner ruling his death accidental, the lawsuit claims that these individuals used drugs “to blackmail and rob him” in the hours leading up to the crash.
Channel 11 contacted the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) to see if they were investigating these accusations, and while alcohol and ketamine were listed on Haskins’ medical report, the FHP confirmed they have no investigations into the claims.
A lawyer for Haskins’ estate said that this is the first step to begin uncovering the truth about Haskins’ death:
“The filing of this lawsuit is an important step in the process of uncovering the complete truth about this tragedy. The civil justice system allows for subpoenas to be issued for critical documents and for sworn testimony to be taken of people who have knowledge about the events leading up to Dwayne’s death,” said Rick Ellsley of The Ellsley Law Firm, P.L.L.C.
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