Henry Ruggs NFL career is crumbling like a cookie, and it’s clear the world wants him to be accountable for his actions.
On Nov. 2, Ruggs was driving 156 MPH in his Corvette and struck the back of a Toyota, killing a woman and her dog.
Shannon Sharpe chimed in on the incident with TMZ Sports, who caught him at LAX.
“It’s sad,” the Broncos legend said. “I hate it for him that what he’s going to have to go through probably cost himself a career.”
Sharpe, though, made it clear he doesn’t have too much sympathy for the 22-year-old over it all … explaining the choices Ruggs is accused of making that night are just inexcusable. “He was very selfish,” Sharpe said … “This lady lost her life because he was selfish. Because he was reckless. This isn’t a mistake.”
“A mistake is leaving my phone in the Uber. That’s a mistake. Getting intoxicated, making a conscious decision to drive a vehicle at a high rate of speed, that’s not a mistake. That’s reckless.”
The NFL Hall of Famer understands every decision made will dictate the course of an athlete’s career.
Ruggs III’s attorneys are trying to pass the blame on the firefighters.
“Firemen did not attempt to extinguish the fire at Ms. Tintor’s vehicle for approximately 20 minutes at which time the entire vehicle was engulfed in flames,” defense attorneys David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld said in a Wednesday court filing that does not identify their witness.
Chesnoff and Schonfeld declined additional comment about their Wednesday request for a subpoena for fire department records. Chesnoff called the effort part of their crash investigation. The witness told the attorneys he was at home nearby when he heard the crash and went to look.
Firefighters were “in a position to extinguish the vehicle fire while it was in its infancy stages and failed to do so,” the court filing said.
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