Former Raiders vast 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 automobile crash practically 4 years in the past.
Ruggs drove his sports activities automobile at speeds as much as 156 mph within the metropolis on Nov. 2, 2021, slamming right into a automobile 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 arms of time,” he mentioned in a video taken by the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal. “I might love for them to satisfy the actual 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 at all times within the information, it is at all times within the newspaper. So that they must always be reminded of the scenario, be reminded of me.”
Ruggs, a former first-round draft choose, pleaded responsible in Might 2023 to felony DUI inflicting dying and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced in August 2023 to a 3- to 10-year jail sentence.
