Travis lying on road: 911 call
Country singer Randy Travis was lying in the middle of the road with no car in sight when another driver spotted him and called 911, according to a recording released Thursday.
“I just found a guy laying in the road,” the caller said in a recording released by the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office. He added later, “I want to say he had no shirt on, but I don’t know.”
Officials said Travis was naked and threatened to kill state troopers when he was arrested late Tuesday night. He was charged with driving while intoxicated and retaliation or obstruction, and released Wednesday on $21,500 bond from the jail in Sherman, about 100 km north of Dallas.
A mug shot showed a batteredlooking Travis in a T-shirt, with a black eye and dried blood on his face.
He later walked barefoot out of the county jail wearing scrubs and a University of Texas ball cap.
The 911 caller did not identify Travis by name and said he at first thought the body belonged to a deer.
“I’m spooked out,” he said. “I don’t see a vehicle, there’s a couple of cones scattered.”
A representative for Travis said there would be no comment Thursday.
It was the second Texas arrest involving alcohol this year for the Grammy-winning singer, who was cited in February for public intoxication.