{"id":936097,"date":"2026-10-21T20:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936097\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:57:24","slug":"911-call-revealed-from-former-nfl-player-josh-mauros-death-i-need-an-ambulance-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936097\/","title":{"rendered":"911 call revealed from former NFL player Josh Mauro’s death: ‘I need an ambulance now’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman who discovered former NFL player Josh Mauro dead<\/a> inside of an Arizona residence earlier this year heartbreakingly pleaded with law enforcement to send help his way as quickly as possibly, newly released 911 audio reveals.<\/p>\n

The woman placed the call to authorities at around noon on April 23, stating that she was sure Mauro was \u201cdead\u201d<\/a> on the floor of his Phoenix home.<\/p>\n

New York Giants defensive end Josh Mauro (97) plays during the second quarter of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018. Charles Wenzelberg\/NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI need an ambulance now,\u201d she said in the audio, which was obtained by the California Post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The woman explained that while she, Mauro and their friend had been up late partying<\/a> the night before, the ex-New York Giants defensive end was alive when she went to bed.<\/p>\n

Josh Mauro, former New York Giants player, is seen in an undated Facebook photo. Facebook\/Linzay Crawford<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and my friend are upstairs asleep and I woke up and he\u2019s downstairs on the floor,\u201d she said in the harrowing call. \u201cAnd he\u2019s blue. He\u2019s blue.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the dispatcher asked the woman if Mauro had been using drugs, she said \u201cwe were drinking last night but that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also added that she was not sure if Mauro had been battling any health problems, noting they just recently \u201cmet him at work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis lips are blue,\u201d the woman added. \u201cHe\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Giants defensive end Josh Mauro (97) reacts after tackling Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry (22) during the first period of an NFL football game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018. Charles Wenzelberg\/NY Post<\/p>\n

First responders got to the scene shortly after the call was placed, and a Phoenix Police Department case report stated investigators discovered Mauro deceased with \u201ca white powdery substance\u201d and a \u201crolled up dollar bill next to the powder\u201d near his body. They also located a \u201cbottle cap with white substance in it\u201d as well as a syringe in a trash can inside the home, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The PPD documents stated that at least one of the women at the house told officers at the scene that Mauro had been \u201con a bender for four days.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Maricopa County Medical Examiner eventually ruled Muaro had traces of \u201cfentanyl, cocaine, ethanol, and their metabolites as well as cannabinoids and caffeine\u201d in his system, and deemed his death to be an accidental overdose.<\/p>\n

Mauro played in the NFL from 2014 to 2021, logging snaps for the Arizona Cardinals, New York Giants and Oakland Raiders.<\/p>\n

He was 35 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman who discovered former NFL player Josh Mauro dead inside of an Arizona residence earlier this year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,485,5607,308461,1242,593,85],"class_list":["post-936097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-california","tag-exclusive","tag-josh-mauro","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}