Former Las Vegas Raiders vast receiver Henry Ruggs III will plead responsible to DUI leading to demise and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter after a crash that killed a 23-year-old lady.
Ruggs will serve three to 10 years in Nevada state jail after confirming at a preliminary listening to on Tuesday that he’ll plead responsible. He’ll formally plead responsible when he seems in court docket on 10 Could. As a part of the plea deal, one rely of DUI inflicting substantial hurt and two counts of reckless driving can be dropped.
“This is step one towards a good decision to this matter and we look ahead to closure for all of the events concerned,” attorneys for Ruggs stated in an announcement on Tuesday.
In line with police, Ruggs was driving at greater than 150 mph with a blood-alcohol content material twice Nevada’s authorized restrict earlier than his sports activities automobile slammed into the rear of a Toyota RAV4 within the early hours of two November 2021. Tina Tintor and her canine burned to demise contained in the Toyota. Ruggs and his girlfriend, who was a passenger in his automobile, sustained non-life threatening accidents.
“[R]esponding officers positioned the Toyota on hearth. Hearth division personnel responded and positioned a deceased sufferer contained in the Toyota,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division stated in an announcement on the time. “The preliminary investigation signifies the entrance of the Chevrolet collided with the rear of the Toyota.”
Ruggs has been below home arrest for the reason that crash after he posted a $150,000 bond. The 24-year-old, a first-round decide within the 2020 NFL draft, was launched by the Raiders within the days following the crash. He confronted as much as 50 years in jail if he had been discovered responsible at a jury trial.
