(NECN: Brian Burnell) - Along with the new video, this new evidence includes pages upon pages of documents, and police radio chatter that we've never heard before.
It all surrounds the controversial shooting death of Easton, Mass. native DJ Henry.
He's the 20-year-old Pace University football player shot and killed by a New York police officer back in 2010.
DJ Henry was shot by officer Aaron Hess. Officer Hess says Henry tried to run him down and he shot the young man through the windshield of Henry’s car while defending himself.
Witnesses, including friends of DJ’s wwho were in the car, say he didn't try to run anyone down and the evidence released Monday raises serious questions about Hess' story.
We want to caution that video recorded by a camera in a police cruiser that night shows DJ Henry on the ground, dying.
You will see some of that video during this report.
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All of this information was released by order of a federal magistrate.
In October, 2010, 20-year-old DJ Henry was shot and killed by Pleasantville, NY police officer Aaron Hess.
The officer fired through the windshield of Henry’s car and told investigators Henry tried to run him down. On Monday, this video, recorded by a dashboard camera in a police cruiser, captured the last moments of DJ Henry’s life, lying on the blacktop outside his car, his hands cuffed behind his back.
His family has said from the outset that their son was left to die while medical personnel attended to Officer Hess. This is one part of reams of evidence a federal judge ordered released.
There are also recordings of the police radio transmissions that night when officers were called to a shopping center on reports of bar fight that had spilled out into the parking lot. The first cops there radioed that there was a large gathering of people but no fight. Subsequent transmissions show something going very wrong.
Radio call: "I need a medical ambulance. We've got an officer down. Hit by a vehicle. Shots fired. 430, shots fired, officer down. You say shots fired, officer's down? Pleasantville officer's down."
The officer down was Hess. Friends of Henry’s who were in the car that night say DJ never tried to run anyone down. That he was moving his car after being told to by police. An attorney for the Henry family says the evidence proves Henry’s car was going no more than 17 miles an hour, slower than that when the shots were fired. And Henry’s father says another officer fired his weapon that night, but not at his son.
"He was trying to shoot... what he says in his statement... was a guy in black on the hood of a car. He was trying to shoot Aaron Hess. So what caught his attention isn't a commotion in the roadway. What caught his attention was shots fired in a situation where there was no reason for shots to be fired," said Danroy Henry Sr., DJ Henry’s father.
Hess was cleared by a New York Grand Jury.
The Henry family has fired a federal lawsuit and still has hope the U.S. Department of Justice will indict Officer Hess in the shooting of DJ.
