An Uzbek truck driver who couldn’t speak English allegedly killed a star college soccer goalie over the weekend after the Biden administration let him into the country, according to Fox News.
Bekhzod Asrarov, 42, is accused of ramming his truck into the back of University of Massachusetts Lowell men’s soccer goalie Tobias Christopher Forsythe’s vehicle on Interstate 71 in Madison County, Ohio, on July 5. Asrarov came to the United States via the diversity visa lottery program in 2024 before obtaining an Ohio commercial driver’s license, Fox News reported.
He is charged with tampering with evidence after he “ripped out his dash cam and hid it in his pocket,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, adding that the trucker “failed his English language proficiency test” and that “state troopers had to use Google Translate to talk to him.”
Forsythe, 21, an economics major, played for Ashland University and Shawnee State University, where he started all 17 games during the 2025 season, before joining the UMass Lowell team in 2026.
Tobias “Toby” Forsythe was just 21, a star goalie for the UMass Lowell soccer team with his whole life ahead of him. On Sunday, his life was stolen.
A massive semi-truck driven by Bekhzod Asrarov rammed the back of Toby’s car on I-71 in Madison County, Ohio, killing him… pic.twitter.com/diNqfujrRc
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) July 7, 2026
“We cannot let truckers like Asrarov, who can’t read our road signs or speak to law enforcement, drive 80,000-pound rigs on America’s highways,” Duffy said on X Tuesday.
“I am praying for Toby’s family and loved ones after this horrible loss. We will never stop fighting to keep these dangerous truck drivers OFF THE ROAD so no other parents have to endure this unimaginable grief,” Duffy added.
The Department of Homeland Security didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Kyle Zenoni, head coach of the UMass Lowell men’s soccer program, described Forsythe as the ideal athlete and an “even better person.”
“He was humble, honest, selfless, and the definition of hard work,” Zenoni said.
“Every single day, he showed up ready to compete, improve, and do whatever was asked of him. He never looked for shortcuts and never expected anything to be given to him — he simply wanted the opportunity to earn it,” Zenoni added.
In response to a recent string of crashes involving illegal immigrant truckers, the Trump administration has pushed to enforce English-language requirements for truckers and has threatened to withhold federal funding from states issuing licenses to illegal immigrants.
The latest such collision involved a Haitian semi-truck driver who allegedly killed a Pennsylvania State Trooper in a devastating crash. The Biden administration allowed the foreign trucker, who obtained a Massachusetts commercial driver’s license, into the country through its signature humanitarian parole program.
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