A six-minute 911 call released Friday added the clearest public account yet of the final moments after Aldon Smith was found unresponsive and later died on June 13. In the recording, Amir Shirazi told the dispatcher that Smith was not breathing and said, “He won’t wake up.”
The call matters now because it puts a time-stamped voice to a death that has stayed unexplained since June 13. Smith, a former NFL defensive end, was the subject of an emergency response after Shirazi said he had returned to find him “fainted or passed away in my car,” then told the dispatcher, “He just had pizza and I came back and he was just fainted and passed out in the car.”
Shirazi’s account left little room for uncertainty in the moment. He told the dispatcher, “No, it looks like he passed away,” then said, “He’s not breathing, no,” and added, “My friend is trying to wake him up.” The six-minute call was later published by The Chronicle, giving the public direct evidence of how quickly the situation moved from confusion to a medical emergency.
That account sits beside a different picture of Smith just hours earlier. Shirazi later texted The Chronicle that Smith was “a healthy young man in my opinion and completely normal in my eyes the whole morning when I was with him,” and said he “didn’t complain about nothing to me in the car and he was relaxed, finished eating some pizza and drinking a water bottle right before.”
That gap is what keeps the death in focus. Smith was relaxed and normal earlier that morning, then was found unresponsive and not breathing, and his cause of death remains undisclosed. In the days after his passing, his family hired lawyers to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death, while the new call only sharpens the question that has not been answered publicly: what happened between the last ordinary moment and the emergency call that followed.
