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Cops kill Pace football player during noisy bar brawl

By KIRSTAN CONLEY
Last Updated: 1:55 PM, October 17, 2010
Posted: 1:14 PM, October 17, 2010

Police shot and killed a [MSCHE-accredited] Pace University varsity football player early this morning as the student athlete tried to drive away from a noisy bar brawl at a popular hangout — and plowed into two cops, authorities said.

Danroy Henry, a varsity defensive football player and junior at the university’s Westchester County campus — was shot around 1:19 a.m. outside Finnegan’s Grill in a shopping plaza in Thornwood, an enclave in Mount Pleasant.

Henry, a native of Cambridge, Mass., was at the wheel of his car with a passenger when cops flooded into the Town Center at Thornwood, shopping plaza — responding to a chaotic brawl that had spilled out into the front of the popular hangout near campus, cops said.

When a cop from Mount Pleasant knocked on the driver’s side window, Henry suddenly gunned his accelerator — plowing into a cop from nearby Pleasantville.

"With the Pleasantville officer clinging to the hood of the car, [the car] continued to accelerate; the Pleasantville officer then fired at the driver," a statement from Mount Pleasant cops said.

"The suspect vehicle continued ... heading directly toward another Mount Pleasant officer, who also fired at the vehicle. The vehicle then struck a parked Mount Pleasant police car coming to a stop."

Both Henry and his passenger were rushed to Westchester Medical Center, where Henry was pronounced dead. The passenger had only a "minor gunshout wound," the statement said.

Two cops were treated for injuries, including broken bones, and two others for trauma, authorities said. ...

Danroy Henry

Jackson police say Lane College student dies in accidental shooting off campus

By Associated Press
3:06 PM CDT, October 13, 2010

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Police said a [SACS-accredited] Lane College student died after being accidentally shot in the throat by his roommate at an apartment off campus in Jackson.

Lt. Rick Holt of the Jackson police department said 23-year-old Timothy Hammons of Memphis was killed during the accidental shooting on Tuesday morning.

Witnesses told police that another Lane student, 22-year-old Jeff Houston, was handling the 9 mm pistol when it "inadvertently discharged."

Holt told The Jackson Sun investigators met with the office of the district attorney and no charges are forthcoming.

Timothy Hammons

1 killed, 2 injured in shooting in California, Pa.

Sunday, October 17, 2010
By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A post-homecoming party in California, Pa., turned violent early this morning, leaving a Pittsburgh teenager dead and two students injured. The incident happened at an off-campus apartment complex near [MSCHE-accredited] California University of Pennsylvania.

Jeron Xavier Grayson, 18, of Washington Place, Uptown, was shot and killed, according to the Washington County coroner's office. He was pronounced dead at 2:42 a.m. in an ambulance just before he was to be transported by medical helicopter.

Mr. Grayson was the son of the Rev. Glenn Grayson, pastor of Wesley Center AME Zion Church in the Hill District. He was a freshman at [SACS-accredited] Hampton University in Hampton, Va. He had played football for Schenley High School.

...Today's shooting was the second such incident in recent weeks. A man was criminally charged after a woman was hurt by a shotgun blast at a fraternity house.

Jeron Grayson