The up-and-coming football star from Pace University who was fatally shot by police on Sunday morning was just trying to move his car, which was illegally parked, according to a statement from a family friend.
The father of a passenger in the car, which was driven by Pace University gridder Danroy Henry Jr. has said that his son, who was in the passenger seat, thought a police officer tapped on the window to get Henry to move the car. As Henry began to move off "an officer jumped out from between cars and started firing, and then the next thing [the young men] knew, [one cop] was on the hood," said the father, Thomas Parks.
According to Parks, Henry had "yelled several times as they were pulling him out of the vehicle, screaming, 'They shot me! They shot me! They shot me!'
Parks also commented that “After he's been shot, and to lay him on the ground, face down, bleeding, handcuffed and to be left there like some wild wounded animal on the side of the road shouldn't happen."
Brandon Cox, Park’s son said of the incident “what went on that night . . . it didn't need to come to that. Whether we were trying to drive away or not . . . there was no need for any of that to happen. I'm just devastated."
Police have stated that they fired on the car
because it had hit two officers, and looked like it was going to hit a third,
but many witnesses are contesting the police version of events.
