911 Callers Urge Help for Hockey Player Killed by Fireworks

911 Callers Urge Help for Hockey Player Killed by Fireworks
Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks (80) during the NHL hockey game against the New York Rangers in New York, on Jan. 19, 2020. Kathy Willens/AP Photo
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A woman told a 911 dispatcher that Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks was “getting ready to go into convulsions” after he was struck in the chest by an errant Fourth of July fireworks mortar blast at a Michigan home.

The call was one of three released Tuesday in connection with Kivlenieks’ death, which police are investigating as an accident.