Diversity lottery-admitted truck driver allegedly kills UMass soccer star, spoke no English

An Uzbek commercialized motortruck operator admitted to the United States via a diverseness lottery killed a prima assemblage shot goalie successful Ohio implicit the play and had to usage Google Translate to talk with authorities troopers who arrived astatine the deadly scene, sources told Fox News.

Bekhzod Asrarov, 42, rammed the backmost of a conveyance connected Interstate 71 successful Madison County, resulting successful the decease of Tobias "Toby" Forsythe, 21, who played goalkeeper for the University of Massachusetts astatine Lowell.

When Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers arrived astatine the scene, Asrarov, who holds a commercialized driver's licence (CDL) from Ohio, tried ripping the dash camera from his motortruck and hid it successful his pocket, sources said.

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Bekhzod Asrarov, 42, rammed the backmost of a conveyance connected Interstate 71 successful Madison County, resulting successful the decease of Tobias "Toby" Forsythe, 21, who played goalkeeper for the University of Massachusetts astatine Lowell, sources told Fox News. (Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy; UMass Lowell)

Asrarov entered the United States during the Biden medication successful 2024 via the diverseness visa lottery program.

"We cannot fto truckers similar Asrarov, who can't work our roadworthy signs oregon talk to instrumentality enforcement, thrust 80,000-pound rigs connected America’s highways," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote connected X.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Ohio Department of Transportation.

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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy testifies during a proceeding earlier the House Appropriations Committee successful the Rayburn House Office Building connected May 14, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Forsythe, an economics major, joined the UMass Lowell River Hawks successful 2026 aft playing for Ashland University for 2 seasons and Shawnee State, wherever helium started each 17 games successful 2025, the assemblage said successful a quality merchandise announcing his death.

"Our full athletics section is heartbroken by Toby's passing," said UMass Lowell Athletic Director Lynn Coutts. "Although Toby's clip arsenic a River Hawk was chopped acold excessively short, helium near a meaningful interaction and volition ever beryllium remembered arsenic a cherished subordinate of our UMass Lowell family."

UMass Lowell caput manager Kyle Zenoni said Forsythe showed up to the transportation each time to vie and amended arsenic a player.

"He ne'er looked for shortcuts and ne'er expected thing to beryllium fixed to him – helium simply wanted the accidental to gain it," Zenoni said. "Our hearts are with Toby’s family, friends, teammates and everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. We volition everlastingly beryllium grateful that Toby was portion of our River Hawk household and we volition grant his representation by carrying guardant the illustration helium set."

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The Trump medication has intensified efforts to revoke the CDLs of migrant motortruck drivers who are not proficient successful English, calling them a information to the road.

Most recently, a Haitian nationalist who authorities said remained successful the U.S. contempt being ordered to permission was charged successful the decease of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper who was conducting a commercialized conveyance inspection on Interstate 81 past week.