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Source: Pace Student Who Was Shot Was Legally Drunk

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Danroy Henry
Local police have been receiving a lot of criticism for the fatal shooting of Pace University student Danroy Henry in Westchester last weekend. Eye witnesses claim that Henry was handcuffed and left on the road for up to 15 minutes without medical attention while medical teams treated a less seriously injured officer at the scene, and students who tried to help him were either Tasered or handcuffed, which police have denied. Now, police sources have revealed another complication in the story: according to the results of the autopsy of 20-year-old Henry, he was legally drunk at the time of the shooting, with a .13 blood alcohol level.

According to students with Henry that night, the underage football player was the designated driver for the evening, and was not drunk. Pace junior Christine Leone said that Henry "was with me the whole night and wasn't even drinking." Henry's family and their lawyers told a Boston television station that the release of the alcohol level seemed to be an attempt to sway public opinion against the student: "Even if it is true, my wife and I have said from the beginning that we want the whole truth. This becomes a part of that truth. But at the end of the day, the central question to us is, does that justify killing our son?...We still fundamentally believe it isn't," said Henry's father, Danroy Henry Sr., on Friday.

Henry's family also wanted to make clear that they didn't want their son's death becoming a racially-charged fight: "We don't want to make this a race issue. We just want the truth. We want the truth for our son," said Henry's mother, Angela Henry. Yesterday, the lawyer for six other Pace students arrested during the melee called on the Feds to begin an investigation, because of the incompetence of local police. Today, the US Attorney's Office said in a statement it and the FBI will review "available evidence to determine whether any federal criminal civil-rights laws have been violated."

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  • jamieob256

    The penalty for being legally drunk is death.

  • Guest

    Sean Bell Jr.

  • sj

    Well if the autopsy shows his BAC at 0.13, then it was at 0.13. Which means that the people who said he wasn't drinking are lying or wrong. It's pretty simple. You can't deny that any more than you can deny that the Taconic wrong-way driver had been drinking, as her family tried to do.

    At any rate, the BAC is really moot. It's pretty clear that it didn't go down quite the way his buddies say it did. Remains to be seen if it went down quite the way the cops say it did. I just hope there's good clear video either way.

    But the claim that he gently pulled away from the fire lane and a cop just decided to start shooting for the hell of it is pretty ridiculous on its face, so naturally I'm skeptical of that claim. But then again, stupider things have happened so I withhold judgment until the investigation is completed.

  • ANGRYGOD11

    Source: Pace Student Who Was Shot Now Legally Dead

  • Guest

    "...the autopsy of 20-year-old Henry, he was legally drunk ..."

    i think he was illegally drunk.

  • jaycjay

    How about, "his blood alcohol content exceeded the level defined under New York State law as the point beyond which a person is intoxicated"? That flows pretty well.

  • Guest

    how about, "he was pooped to shit"?

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