Former Raiders large receiver Henry Ruggs III, on particular launch from jail Tuesday night time, spoke at a Hope for Prisoners occasion in Las Vegas and apologized to the household of a lady he killed in a automobile crash almost 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 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 may flip again the fingers of time,” he mentioned in a video taken by the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal. “I’d love for them to fulfill the actual Henry Ruggs and never the one which was escaping from one thing. I sincerely apologize for not solely being part of that state of affairs, however the truth my face is at all times within the information, it is at all times within the newspaper. So that they need to continually be reminded of the state of affairs, be reminded of me.”
Ruggs, a former first-round draft decide, pleaded responsible in Might 2023 to felony DUI inflicting demise and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced in August 2023 to a 3- to 10-year jail sentence.