Police account of Pace student's death questioned
 | This handout photo from Pace University on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010, shows Danroy Henry, 20, a student and football player at Pace University's Pleasantville campus who was shot and killed by local police . (AP Photo/Pace University,Handout) |
By Jim FitzgeraldOctober 19, 2010
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THORNWOOD, N.Y.—Investigators are trying to unravel conflicting accounts of how a college football player driving away from the scene of a fight ended up dead hours after the team's homecoming game, struck in a burst of police gunfire that pierced his windshield.
Authorities say Danroy "D.J." Henry, 20, had been parked in a fire lane outside a bar when he sped away from officers who were rapping on his car window, hitting one who clung to the hood as the sedan barreled toward a colleague.
But the father of a passenger in the car says the driver took off because he
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