The day after DJ was killed, Chief Louis Alagno held a second press conference and gave more details:ĬHIEF LOUIS ALAGNO : The Pleasantville officer that was involved was police officer Aaron Hess.
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WCBS RADIO : Police in Westchester in the community of Mount Pleasant fire at a speeding vehicle, killing the driver identified as a Pace University student.ĭan Henry: We were pushing hard against a very strong current in those early days because they'd beat us out there with a narrative.Īnd that narrative, as DJ's parents saw it, was that police were blaming DJ for his own death. Was it a justified shooting or was it not justified? Because if it wasn't - it was murder. We're just trying to understand what the facts tell us. That moment began a long, legal journey that would take the Henrys from a strip mall in New York all the way to the United States Department of Justice.ĭan Henry: We're not anti-police. And we pressed and said, "Look, we want truth. James Brown: And you asked the question that they would conduct a press conference without even having talked with you, his family, and the response was?ĭan Henry: …that's what the officers on the scene told me happened, basically. The Henrys didn't want condolences they wanted to know how Chief Alagno could make a public statement about their son without talking to them first. "Our whole goal was to just get the truth," says Angella Henry.
"We don't need some version of the story that protects one side or the other," says Dan Henry.
My condolences go out to the family of the young man that died in this event. That driver was DJ Henry.ĬHIEF LOUIS ALAGNO : I'm truly saddened by the events that occurred this evening. POLICE RADIO CALL: I've got an officer down - hit by a vehicle.Īlagno said the car continued to accelerate and the officer on the hood of the car shot the driver. that vehicle struck that officer he was propelled onto the hood. A Village of Pleasantville officer attempted to stop that vehicle. near Finnegan's Grill accelerated from the scene. POLICE RADIO CALL: It looks like … it's just a large gathering of the bar outside.Īccording to Alagno, when a policeman approached the car in the fire lane, the vehicle sped off and struck an officer:ĬHIEF LOUIS ALAGNO : For an unknown reason a vehicle that had been parked in a fire lane. Reportedly, unruly patrons had spilled into the parking lot. POLICE RADIO CALL: Respond to Finnegans … fight in progress.Īlagno said several police officers responded to a fight at Finnegan's grill, a local bar about two miles from Pace University's campus. Pleasant police received a call of a disturbance. What the Henrys did not know is that the Police Chief Louis Alagno had already conducted a press conference implicating DJ:ĬHIEF LOUIS ALAGNO | MOUNT PLEASANT PD : At about 1:20 a.m. The family wanted answers, and that morning headed to the Mount Pleasant Police station just hours after saying goodbye to DJ.ĭan Henry: …we wanted to look them in the eyes and just say, "You need to know a little bit about our son." We were leaving." And he just kept saying, "He didn't deserve this." He was shot in the arm but escaped serious injury.Īngella Henry: And we said, "Brandon, we need to know everything". Brandon was sitting next to DJ in the car.
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