Naqvi Represents Tintor Family in Wrongful Death Case Against Henry Ruggs III
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Farhan Naqvi represented the family of Tina Tintor in a wrongful death civil action against former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III, who killed the 23-year-old when he drove at 156 mph while drunk and struck her vehicle.
What happened
Just after 3:30 a.m. on November 2, 2021, Tina Tintor was driving her 2013 Toyota RAV4 near the intersection of South Rainbow Boulevard and South Spring Valley Parkway in Las Vegas. She had her golden retriever, Max, with her. Henry Ruggs III, then a wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders, was behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray traveling at approximately 156 mph. His blood alcohol level was 0.161, more than twice the Nevada legal limit. His Corvette rear-ended Tintor's vehicle at roughly 127 mph at the point of impact. The collision launched her RAV4 571 feet and engulfed it in flames. Tintor, 23, and Max did not survive.
Tintor had graduated from Durango High School in Las Vegas in 2016. Her family had fled war-torn Serbia when she was an infant. At the time of her death she was working at Target while training for a position at an insurance company, with plans to study computer programming. Her mother, Mirjana Komazec, survived her.
The family retained Farhan Naqvi of Naqvi Accident Injury Law to represent them in a civil wrongful death action against Ruggs. While criminal charges moved through Clark County courts, the civil matter ran concurrently. Ruggs eventually pleaded guilty in May 2023 to one felony count of DUI resulting in death and a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter, waiving his appeal rights. On August 9, 2023, Judge Jennifer Schwartz sentenced him to 3 to 10.5 years in prison, with parole eligibility after three years.
The civil wrongful death case was resolved by settlement for an undisclosed amount. Naqvi attended the criminal sentencing on behalf of the Tintor family and addressed reporters afterward, saying the outcome offered the family hope that it "brings some semblance of healing." The family's written statement, delivered by Tintor's cousin Daniel Strbac, described her death as "every parent's worst nightmare" and called on others to learn from the crash.
Sources
This account is drawn from contemporaneous public reporting and the court record.
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