Loleini Tonga, the fiancee of the late Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry, will not be charged in his death, police said today.
“Homicide detectives interviewed Ms. Tonga who was cooperative throughout the duration of the investigation,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said in a statement. “Her statement was consistent with witness accounts. However, there were no witnesses that actually saw how Mr. Henry came out of the back of the truck.”
Henry died after coming out of the back of Tonga’s pickup truck in what police have described as a domestic dispute. Police said today that Tonga was driving below the speed limit, and that there’s no evidence she was driving recklessly.
Tonga told ESPN she believes Henry jumped out because he feared the police were being called on him, but that he was not attempting to hurt himself.
