Tyreek Hill Recording Released And Details Are Disturbing
Tyreek Hill may not be facing charges of child abuse for his three-year-old son’s broken arm yet, but recently-discovered audio may change that decision.
KCTV5 News in Kansas City (a CBS affiliate) has obtained an 11-minute audio clip of Hill and his fiancee Crystal Espinal discussing their son’s broken arm and how to deal with it.
The CBS affiliate in Kansas City (@KCTV5) has an 11-minute audio clip coming out at 6 p.m. CT.
— Matt Verderame (@MattVerderame) April 25, 2019
It allegedly includes Tyreek Hill and fiancee Crystal Espinal in conversation about how their 3-year-old son broke his arm and how to deal with the investigation.
You can listen to the audio at this link. Let’s just say, it looks really bad for the Kansas City Chiefs wideout.
Kansas City Star Chiefs reporter Brooke Pryor has the details:
A recording of Tyreek Hill and his fiancee Crystal Espinal was an "insurance policy" for Crystal, given to a friend, was then given to KCTV. It's airing now.
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) April 25, 2019
In the recording, Crystal says her son said "Daddy did it."
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) April 25, 2019
Hill in the audio to Crystal Espinal: "You need to be terrified of me, too, bitch"
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) April 25, 2019
Espinal: "And you open up his arms and you punch him in the chest."
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) April 25, 2019
Espinal also said in the recording that Tyreek Hill used a belt on their 3-year-old.
KCTV said the recording of Tyreek Hill and Crystal Espinal was 11 minutes long and the Johnson County DA has the audio now.
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) April 25, 2019
Also in the audio, Crystal Espinal tells Tyreek Hill that she "rode for him with that detective"
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) April 25, 2019
From the recording:
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) April 25, 2019
Crystal: He’s scared of you. He’s terrified. And you grabbed onto him, somehow or he fell, one of the two.
Tyreek: I didn’t do nothing. That’s sad. That’s sad bro. That’s sad.
Crystal: Then why does (he) say Daddy did it? Why did he say Daddy did it?
And some more:
More quotes from the disturbing audio:
— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) April 25, 2019
Crystal: “He’s terrified of you”
Hill: “He's terrified of me, you should be terrified of me too b****”
Crystal: “He says daddy did it”
Crystal: “You’re always beating him when he’s crying. You open his arms & punch him in the chest."
If the recording is as damning as reported, the district attorney’s office could revise its decision to charge Hill. In addition to that, the NFL is almost certain to get involved and suspend him under its personal conduct policy.
This isn’t Hill’s first brush with domestic violence. In 2014, police in Stillwater, Oklahoma arrested him on complaints that he assaulted Espinal while she was pregnant. Espinal — then his girlfriend — alleged he threw her around, punched her in the face, then sat on her, repeatedly punched her in the stomach and choked her. Oklahoma State kicked him off the team as a result, and he pleaded guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation.
This is a developing story and we will update it as more information becomes available.