Former Raiders extensive receiver Henry Ruggs III, on particular launch from jail Tuesday evening, spoke at a Hope for Prisoners occasion in Las Vegas and apologized to the household of a girl he killed in a automotive crash almost 4 years in the past.
Ruggs drove his sports activities automotive at speeds as much as 156 mph within the metropolis on Nov. 2, 2021, slamming right into a car that killed driver Tina Tintor and her canine, Max. Tintor was 23.
Ruggs was requested on the occasion what he would say to Tintor’s household.
“One, I want I might flip again the fingers of time,” he stated in a video taken by the Las Vegas Assessment-Journal. “I might love for them to fulfill the true Henry Ruggs and never the one which was escaping from one thing. I sincerely apologize for not solely being part of that scenario, however the truth my face is all the time within the information, it is all the time within the newspaper. In order that they should continuously be reminded of the scenario, be reminded of me.”
Ruggs, a former first-round draft decide, pleaded responsible in Might 2023 to felony DUI inflicting loss of life and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced in August 2023 to a 3- to 10-year jail sentence.
