Danroy Henry, a junior at Pace University's Pleasantville, N.Y., campus is being mourned by his fellow classmates, after he was fatally gunned down by police in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The college football player was struck by a haze of gunfire, after police responded to a disturbance report at a nearby bar, which did not involve the young man who was reportedly an exemplary student.
A group of people were loitering in front of Finnegan's Grill in Mount Pleasant Sunday morning at around 1:00 a.m. Police were summoned after the crowd became unruly and a disturbance broke out at the watering hole's parking lot.
When law enforcement arrived, they attempted to break up fights. Officers then noticed a vehicle parked in the fire lane. When one policeman approached the vehicle and tapped on the window, the driver allegedly sped off vaulting the officer to the car's hood. Then another policeman attempted to pull his colleague off the hood of the car but he, too, was struck and fell to the ground. The officer who was on the hood opened fire on the driver, who continued to direct his vehicle toward yet another law enforcement official who had also begun firing at the suspect.
The 20-year-old Danroy Henry, who was also a business major, was pronounced dead at a nearby Westchester hospital.
There were two other passengers in Henry's vehicle as well; Brandon Cox, 20, suffered a minor gunshot wound and Desmond Hinds, a 21-year-old receiver for the Pace team, was unhurt.
Hind's father said that the boys had not come from the bar but were just outside waiting for a friend when the 50-plus law enforcement melee occurred. Now witnesses are questioning why police were so quick to pull the triggers on their guns.
Henry's father, Danroy Henry Sr., told CNN affiliate WCVB-TV in Boston, Mass., that he doubted the police version of the events that occurred:
"We are beside ourselves. His coach called him today a man of high moral character."
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