9-1-1 Caller: Tiger On The Ground...Snoring
The Associated Press has obtained the police interview with Tiger Woods' neighbor Jarius Adams and his sister Kimberly Harris. In it we learn that when Adams came upon the scene to help Tiger's wife Elin, and before calling 911, Adams found Tiger on the ground with a cut on his lip and...snoring.
Golfweek has summarized some highlights from the interview and posts audio of the interview.
In the Orlando Sentinel, Anika Myers Palm and Willoughby Mariano note this about the interview:
In the 16-minute interview, Harris, who was visiting from Texas, said she was in a bedroom when she heard what she described as a "knocking sound" and saw the tail lights of a black truck through a window. She awakened Adams and asked him to go outside.
Adams saw Tiger Woods, unconscious and snoring, in the street on the passenger side of his 2009 Cadillac Escalade. Elin Woods was wearing a black jogging suit. Woods was wearing a blue shirt and khaki shorts. A golf cart was next to Tiger Woods' vehicle, with two golf clubs in it.
The golfer's wife begged for help.
"She said, 'Can you please help me? Can you please help me?' " Adams said.
"I said 'OK.' I immediately just ran back to the house, got the phone, called 911, ran back out the house again to go back out there to see if she needed any assistance," he said.
Tiger Woods was bleeding.
"Not a lot of blood … nothing on his shirt, nothing on his hands," Adams told investigators.
Also of note on the interview are questions from the interviewer of Harris and Adams about possible surveillance video of the crash and confirmation that Tiger's mom was the person heard in the 911 call asking "What happened?"
AP's Doug Ferguson writes:
Harris told troopers that Woods' mother, Kultida, and mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, were at the scene, but the AP could not confirm that.
A voice that strongly resembles Woods' mother is heard in the background during the 911 call saying loudly, "What happened?"
A spokeswoman for Holmberg, mother of Elin Nordegren, didn't know if she was in Florida when the accident happened.
"I don't know for sure, but I don't think so," spokeswoman Ewa Malmborg said. "I have not been informed about that. She was here again working on Monday again anyway."
In the FHP interview, a trooper asked Harris about the women and if they talked to anyone at the scene.
"The cops came, the Windermere cops came first, then the security guards came," Harris said. "And then it appears Mr. Woods' mom, and Tiger's wife's mom came out after the fact. I don't know if they heard the commotion, I don't if she, his wife, left and came back. But they walked across the grass and were outside as well."
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 07:29 PM
Reader Comments (15)
It's like I always tell my patients -- don't mix golf, money, adultery, Escalades, fire hydrants and Ambien.
Does anybody else think, that maybe during whatever melee was unfolding on Deacon Court and spilling out onto Deacon Circle, that just maybe it was Tiger that smashed the Escalade's windows? Does anybody know, if the Escalade was primarily Elin's, or Tiger's, car? Is it really Elin's Physics book that was featured in the police photo of the broken glass on the rear floor of the vehicle? Might ELIN have been behind the wheel of the Escalade?
Damn, those security cameras probably have the whole thing, and you are never going to see it. Or, will you?
When the police officer went out of her way to say that Tiger was given the same treatment as any other citizen, all I could think was "methinks she doth protest too much."
Wasn't Tiger living at home with his parents 17 years ago? So Jarius is a childhood friend/acquaintance of Tiger? Who just happens to live next door to him in a very high priced, exclusive neighborhood in Windermere?
Public records for Orange County show that Jarius doesn't own the house where the crash occurred; it is owned by Jerome L. Adams and Linda D. Adams. Jarius might have lived in the house for 17 years, and that is an innocent misstatement. Dr. Jerome Adams bought the property in 1988.
http://www.ocpafl.org/pls/webappI/get_parcel_master?pid=282316389903720&query_data=1111111O&tax_year=2010
E.P. Richardson - Yes, I agree. Why Tiger was in the street, and why the golf cart was there, are two facts that have not only not been explained; but they are actually inconsistent with the popular notion that Tiger crashed the car (for unknown reasons) and that he was essentially rescued when Elin broke a window with a golf club:
~Why the golf cart at the scene?
~Did Elin really drive a golf cart with two clubs in it, and Tiger drove the Escalade with Elin's (?) physics book in it?
~Why was Tiger in the street, on the passenger side of the vehicle? (Tiger's position in the street, as far as I know, is a fact that is confirmed by more than the two neighbors; every witness to the scene reports him there.)
~Why were windows on both sides of the vehicle broken?
~Why did Elin get there before the neighbors did?
~What was the story behind the several minutes of tap-tap-tapping sound coming from the scene, as reported by Ms. Harris?
John
Sorry, couldn't figure out how to edit previous post.
JR
Your theory makes a lot of sense. Elin could have run out of the house with Tiger's cell phone and locked herself in the Escalade. She could have been scrolling through his numbers, texts, etc. We've seen Tiger's temper before many times on the tube. He could have come out and smashed both windows with the golf club. (Breaking car windows with a golf club isn't exactly easy btw...don't ask me how I know). It also stands to reason that (pardon the 'stereotyping' here) a distressed European woman might be more inclined to run into a fire hydrant, a hedge and a tree, rather than an American man who's been driving since he was 16.
Whatever the case, I think we all can agree that then entire post-accident scene was staged, regardless of who was actually behind the wheel. No way does she carry him across the seats and lay him on the ground. No way he's sleeping or knocked unconscious. Cover-up and complete bulls#*@ from the Woods' and neighbors...