Steven Ensminger Jr Didn’t Answer Text & Phone Call From Wife Carley McCord Before Crash

LAFAYETTE, LA. (THECOUNT) — Steven Ensminger, Jr., the husband of Louisiana sports reporter Carley McCord, who was one of five victims killed in a small Lafayette plane crash on Saturday, says his wife tried to reach him the morning of the crash – But he never had the time to reply.

According to SI, Ensminger said he missed a call and a text from McCord the morning of the crash. “I don’t have my phone and she sends me a message saying she loved me,” he told Sports Illustrated. “It is by far the most pain, angst and terror and just darkest time of my life and I honestly don’t know how long it will last because I still don’t believe it. I don’t want to believe it.”

The doomed plane was on the way to Atlanta for the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Saturday morning.

Ensminger’s father is the offensive coordinator for LSU. The team is to play Oklahoma on Saturday afternoon, reports TheAdvocate.

Steve Ensminger coached the game that same day.

McCord was a sports reporter with WDSU television in New Orleans. She served as in-game host for the New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Pelicans. The teams remembered McCord’s “infectious personality,” reports FoxCarolina.

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Geo quick facts: Lafayette is a city in southern Louisiana. Downtown, the Alexandre Mouton House, also known as the Lafayette Museum, has 1800s furnishings. The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum features folk art, Japanese prints and mid-20th-century works by artist Henry Botkin. Southwest of town, LARC’s Acadian Village recreates 19th-century settler life, with reconstructed homes and a general store set along a bayou – wikipedia.