Kansas City Chiefs Wide Receiver Rashee Rice Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail For High Speed Crash

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice pleaded blameworthy to charges connected to a high-speed clang successful Dallas past twelvemonth and agreed to a 30-day jailhouse sentence, officials said Thursday.

Rice will besides person 5 years probation for causing a clang March 30 past twelvemonth erstwhile he was down nan instrumentality of a Lamborghini which veered onto nan enarthrosis of nan North Central Expressway successful Dallas.

"I americium profoundly sorry for nan beingness damages to personification and property," Rice said successful a connection he released done his lawyer and prosecutors. "I afloat apologize for nan harm I caused to guiltless drivers and their families."

Rice was down nan instrumentality of a Lamborghini, making "multiple fierce maneuvers astir traffic" astatine 119 mph, according to nan Dallas District Attorney's Office.

"This caused a concatenation guidance that affected aggregate vehicles," prosecutors said. "After nan collision, Mr. Rice grounded to cheque connected nan use of nan victims and fled connected foot."

He pleaded blameworthy to a brace of felonies, causing a collision involving a superior bodily wounded and racing connected a road causing bodily injury.

This case's solution could unfastened nan doorway for nan NFL to levy its ain punishment against Rice, who played successful conscionable 4 games past season, making 24 catches for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns.

In his rookie 2023 season, Rice caught 79 passes for 938 yards and 7 scores.

Rice, who played astatine adjacent SMU and was taken pinch nan wide No. 55 prime successful nan 2023 NFL Draft, urged motorists not to travel successful his lead-footed steps.

“There has been a batch of sleepless nights reasoning astir nan damages that my actions caused and I will proceed moving wrong my intends to make judge that everyone impacted will beryllium made whole,” he said.

“I impulse everyone to mind nan velocity limit, thrust safe and thrust smart.”

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