Henry Ruggs’s Lawyers Say Las Vegas Firefighters Were Slow to Extinguish Tina Tintor’s Vehicle

Former Las Vegas Raiders participant Henry Ruggs III’s protection group have recommended in a brand new courtroom submitting that firefighters’ sluggish response may very well be partly responsible for the demise of a girl in a fiery automotive crash.

A witness claimed firefighters have been sluggish to extinguish a RAV4 that burst into flames after Ruggs slammed his Corvette Stingray into it, protection attorneys David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld wrote of their submitting, in response to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Prosecutors allege Ruggs was speeding at up to 156 miles per hour and had a blood alcohol level of .161, twice Nevada’s authorized restrict, on the time of the crash. He had been partying at a swank golf venue within the MGM Grand earlier that night time.

The driving force of the RAV4, 23-year-old Tina Tintor, didn’t die instantly and may very well be heard screaming as she tried to free herself, in response to witnesses.

“I assumed for certain we have been going to have the ability to do one thing. The hearth was so small on the time,” Tony Rodriguez told KTNV. “It simply grew quick. Actually quick. There was one individual with a fireplace extinguisher, a county employee. That didn’t work. It wasn’t sufficient. It was simply so quick.”

Tintor and her 3-year-old golden retriever, Max, died after the automotive burst into flames.

Of their courtroom submitting, Ruggs’ attorneys wrote that “firemen didn’t try and extinguish the hearth at Ms. Tintor’s car for roughly 20 minutes at which period your entire car was engulfed in flames.”

Firefighters have been “able to extinguish the car hearth whereas it was in its infancy levels and failed to take action,” they alleged.

County spokesperson Erik Pappa slammed the suggestion, saying in a press release to the Assessment Journal that there had been “no delays in response or within the assault on the hearth,” and that “the car was absolutely concerned in hearth upon [first responders’] arrival.”

“There was a steady rekindle in a single space of the automotive that gave the crews some hassle, which isn’t uncommon in car fires,” Pappa stated. “The captain said there was some materials that was dripping, probably from a gas line that was reigniting within the passenger-side, rear wheel space. The hearth crews constantly extinguished this space because it reignited.”

Ruggs’ attorneys are looking for a courtroom order to acquire Clark County Fireplace Division data in regards to the Nov. 2 crash. Chesnoff characterised the submitting as a part of their efforts to research the crash. They’re requesting all data associated to the crash, together with movies, photographs, log studies, dispatch calls and textual content messages.

Ruggs, a 22-year-old former first-round choose, was formally charged on Wednesday with 4 felonies and a misdemeanor cost for possession of a firearm whereas intoxicated. If convicted on all counts, a prosecutor stated, he may withstand 50 years in jail.

Tintor, who got here to the U.S. as a toddler when her household escaped war-torn Serbia, was on her means dwelling after hanging out with a good friend and taking her canine to a park when she was killed.

“Tina’s tragic loss has devastated her household past a grief they might ever comprehend,” an lawyer for her household beforehand stated in a press release. “Household was all the things to Tina, and he or she was the sunshine of her dad and mom’ life. Tina lived in Las Vegas since she was a child. She beloved her 3-year-old Golden Retriever, Max, who handed alongside her Tuesday morning.”

Her funeral was scheduled for Thursday.