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UPDATE: Fiancee Says Chris Henry "Jumped"

In an interview with ESPN's "Outside the Lines" Loleini Tonga spoke about her fiancee Chris Henry's death, TMZ reported. Tonga says Henry "jumped" from the back of the truck that she was driving, but he was not trying to commit suicide.
UPDATE: Fiancee Says Chris Henry "Jumped"
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By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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Loleini Tonga said she’s unsure of what her fiancee, NFL player Chris Henry was thinking when he “jumped” out of the truck.

“I think he thought maybe he was gonna land … he was gonna land right,” she told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.”

Tonga said everything was going well between the couple except for that day and that he “had too much going for him” and loved his children too much to consider suicide.

“He wouldn’t want to be gone away from his kids,” she said.

Loleini said she wasn’t driving fast with Henry in the back of the truck, and that she planned to stop the vehicle but there was “no where to stop on that road.”