New reports are now claiming that former Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas had verbally threatened four Belmont University (Tenn.) students in a white pickup truck not long before his fatal car accident Saturday night.
According to a 20-year-old Belmont student, Bironas yelled threats and profanities at him and his companions around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night; this happened soon after Bironas’ wife had reported him missing. “His window was down, and we pulled up and I said, ‘Hey man, just a heads up, something’s burning from your exhaust. Your exhaust smells horrible, just wanted to let you know,’’ said Connor Fraley in an interview with The Tennessean. “He looked over at me and said ‘I’m going to kill everybody in your [expletive] vehicle.’”
Bironas reportedly repeated the threats after getting dumbfounded responses from Fraley and the truck’s other occupants. The student added that Bironas “tried to sideswipe the vehicle and missed us by a foot,” requiring Fraley’s group to get away at speeds of up to 110 mph.
A separate account from an unidentified woman also pinpointed Bironas as acting erratically on the night of his death, just 30 minutes following the earlier incident. Like Fraley, she reported that the driver of a white SUV attempted to run her vehicle off the road. “He is dangerous, he is drunk or something. He tried to start a fight with us,” read the transcript of the woman’s 911 call. “I just want to tell the police there is something wrong with him. He is dangerous, he is drunk or he is on drugs. There is something wrong with him. He gave us a mean look. We don’t even know him, and he tried to run us off the road.”