WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Police transmissions from an incident in which a college football player was killed by a New York officer include repeated shouts of “Shots fired! Officer down!”
The only shots had been fired by officers.
The audio recordings of police messages and other evidence are being released by the family of Danroy Henry Jr. of Easton, Mass. He’s the 20-year-old Pace University football player who was killed during a 2010 bar disturbance in Thornwood, N.Y.
The recordings start with a report of a fight at the bar and quickly escalate in tone as officers call in.
A Pleasantville officer, Aaron Hess, shot Henry through the windshield of Henry’s car. He says he was hit by the car and thrown onto the hood and had to fire to stop the car.
He was cleared by a grand jury.
