NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A recording has been released of a frantic 911 call made by Robert Ritchie, known as Kid Rock, after he found his assistant’s body in his driveway.
According to The Tennessean, he made the call shortly around 11:30 a.m. Monday:
“I need an ambulance. I think my assistant looks to be dead from a Polaris accident…There’s a body lying next to it.”
“We woke up, and he wasn’t in the house and we came to look for him,” an unidentified woman adds. “It’s not like him not to be up early. Oh my God, can you just please send somebody. He’s off to the side of the driveway… We have an ATV, we heard the engine running. It’s in the trees and it’s still running. We didn’t touch anything. I can’t look but he appears to be dead.”
The assistant, Michael Sacha, 30, was already dead when emergency responders got to the scene.
Investigators believe he died after losing control and crashing an ATV.
He had been driving guests on the ATV around midnight from a cookout on Kid Rock’s estate to the property driveway so they could get in an Uber. He crashed on the way back, police said.
Kid Rock said in a statement he is “beyond devastated.”
“He was a member of our family and one of the greatest young men I have ever had the pleasure to not only work with, but also to become friends with.”
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