Fire killed young Las Vegas woman in Ruggs’ DUI case, coroner rules

Tina Tintor died of “thermal injuries owed to a centrifugal conveyance collision” aft a fiery wreck connected the greeting of Nov. 2 involving erstwhile Raiders subordinate Henry Ruggs, the Clark County coroner’s bureau said Tuesday.

Tintor’s Toyota burst into flames aft Henry Ruggs, who prosecutors said was driving 156 mph seconds earlier the crash, slammed into the backmost of her car successful a residential country adjacent Rainbow Boulevard and Spring Valley Parkway, constabulary person said. Tintor, 23, and her canine Max were killed successful the crash.

Ruggs’ humor intoxicant level measured 0.16 percent aft the crash, prosecutors person said. That is doubly the ineligible bounds for Nevada drivers. He was released by the Raiders little than 24 hours later.

Ruggs has been charged with felony counts of DUI resulting successful death, DUI resulting successful important bodily harm, and 2 counts of reckless driving resulting successful decease oregon important bodily harm successful transportation with Tintor’s death and injuries his longtime girlfriend, Rudy Washington, suffered successful the crash.

Other important conditions contributing to Tintor’s decease were inhalation of products of combustion, fractures of the nasal bones, close ribs and near forearm and a near hemothorax, a postulation of humor betwixt the thorax partition and the lung, according to the coroner’s office, which ruled her decease an accident.

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