{"id":799650,"date":"2026-08-02T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/799650\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:15:08","slug":"911-call-reveals-frantic-effort-to-revive-aldon-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/799650\/","title":{"rendered":"911 call reveals frantic effort to revive Aldon Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NFL defensive end Aldon Smith died suddenly on June 13. The situation prompted former teammate Donte Whitner to express concern<\/a> about what had happened.<\/p>\n

An important piece in the potentially complicated puzzle emerged on Friday, when the San Francisco Chronicle published the six-minute 911 call<\/a> that was made after Smith was found unresponsive.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on!\u201d former 49ers teammate Anthony Dixon says on the call. \u201cHe\u2019s not responding! . . . Oh my God, Aldon, brother!\u201d (Whitner had identified former 49ers teammate Anthony Davis as someone who was present when Smith died. Whitner apparently was referring to Anthony Dixon.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a friend, it looks like he fainted or passed away in my car,\u201d Amir Shirazi, who previously spoke<\/a> to the Chronicle about Smith\u2019s passing, said to the dispatcher. \u201cHe just had pizza and I came back and he was just fainted and passed out in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dispatcher asked if Smith was awake. \u201cNo, it looks like he passed away,\u201d Shirazi said. \u201cI hope to God not. But he\u2019s not breathing, no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shirazi also was asked whether he had access to a defibrillator. He said he didn\u2019t. \u201cMy friend is trying to wake him up,\u201d Shirazi told the dispatcher. \u201cHe won\u2019t wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shirazi provided more information to the Chronicle via text message on Friday: \u201cHe was a healthy young man in my opinion and completely normal in my eyes the whole morning when I was with him. . . . [He] didn\u2019t complain about nothing to me in the car and he was relaxed, finished eating some pizza and drinking a water bottle right before. Hopefully the autopsy comes out soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s cause of death remains undisclosed, if it\u2019s even known. In the days after Smith\u2019s passing, his family hired lawyers<\/a> to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL defensive end Aldon Smith died suddenly on June 13. The situation prompted former teammate Donte Whitner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-799650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}