Cleveland Browns Donte Stallworth Kills Man in Car Accident: On early Saturday morning in South Florida, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth was driving his luxurious Bentley down the Miami streets.
At the same time, a 59-year-old crane operator named Mario Reyes was leaving his overnight job and trying to get to a bus stop on the southeast end of MacArthur Causeway to get home to his wife and 15-year-old daughter. And that’s when their contrasting worlds unpredictably met and unfortunately changed everything forever. 
In Sunday’s edition, The Miami Herald reported that a witness to the crash said it appeared that Stallworth drove his Bentley around a stopped vehicle to beat a red light, fatally striking Reyes. “I think it looks like to the police that Stallworth wasn’t being careful, at the very least,” a source said.
According to his family and co-workers, Reyes who was a family man, a loving husband and a great father. “He spent all his free time with his family,” Reyes’ brother-in-law, Francisco Fajardo, told The Associated Press. “He was on his way home.”
Reyes had been working all night with the shipping company Bernuth Agencies, located just feet from the crash. They stated that Reyes had clocked out only minutes before the accident around 7 AM ET. “When the time came for him to leave, he grabbed his stuff and headed to the bus stop out front,” a co-worker told The Miami Herald. “We could hear the impact,” a co-worker said. “We all ran out, and he was lying there unconscious in the middle.”
Miami Beach Police said Stallworth has not been charged but likely will, even though he was cooperating with the investigation. Officers drew blood to test for drugs or alcohol and the results will be key to determine the charges. According to authorities, the results from the test could take anywhere from three days to three weeks.
Stallworth, who had just signed a seven-year, $35 million contract with the Cleveland Browns, is allegedy looking at driving under the influence, vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving among the possible charges. “The police seem pretty confident that they’re going to charge him,” a source with the NFL said. “ … Even if he (is) clean, I think the police feel he’s going to be charged with something, regardless.”
Reyes leaves behind his wife of almost 20 years, Catalina, and the couple’s 15-year-old daughter, Daniela. They live in a southwest Miami home owned by Fajardo, which they share with his family. Reyes’ wife and daughter were too hysterical to speak Sunday. “Our family is in shock,” Fajardo said. “They don’t really want to talk.”
