Former Las Vegas Raiders broad receiver Henry Ruggs III will plead to blame to DUI leading to demise and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter after a crash that killed a 23-year-old girl.
Ruggs will serve 3 to ten years in Nevada state jail after confirming at a initial listening to on Tuesday that he’ll plead to blame. He will officially plead to blame when he seems in courtroom on May 10. As a part of the plea deal, one rely of DUI inflicting really extensive hurt and two counts of reckless riding can be dropped.
“This is the first step toward a fair resolution to this matter and we look forward to closure for all the parties involved,” lawyers for Ruggs mentioned in a commentary on Tuesday.
According to police, Ruggs used to be riding at greater than 150 mph with a blood-alcohol content material two times Nevada’s felony prohibit ahead of 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 within the Toyota. Ruggs and his female friend, who used to be a passenger in his automobile, sustained non-life threatening accidents.
,[R]Responding officials situated the Toyota on fireplace. Fire division team of workers spoke back and situated a deceased sufferer within the Toyota,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement at the time. “The initial investigation signifies the entrance of the Chevrolet collided with the rear of the Toyota.”
Ruggs has been beneath space arrest because the crash after he posted a $150,000 bond. The 24-year-old, a first-round select within the 2020 NFL draft, used to be launched via the Raiders within the days following the crash. He confronted as much as 50 years in prison if he have been discovered to blame at a jury trial.