Bengals WR Chris Henry dead at age 26

[nickagneta]

It looks like as of Wednesday, police are saying no charges are going to be filed for this incident, according to Foxsports.com

On Wednesday, Henry was found in the road about eight miles north of downtown Charlotte "apparently suffering life-threatening injuries," according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. Henry was transported to Carolinas Medical Center, the local trauma unit.

Police said a dispute began at a home just before noon and Henry jumped into the bed of the pickup truck as his unidentified fiancee was driving away from the residence.

"The domestic situation continued between the operator and Mr. Henry," the police said in a statement. "At some point while she was driving, Mr. Henry came out of the back of the vehicle."

Fey wouldn't name the woman and said no charges would be filed on Wednesday.

Really sounds like Henry was being the aggressor and maybe hadn't cleaned up his personal act nearly as much as some may think.

[the_Bird]

If I were to have ranked NFL players by "likelihood of suffering a violent death prior to age 35," Chris Henry would easily have been in the top 1% (alongside Pacman Jones).  Buddy of mine reminded me that they were teammates for two season...  [shudder]...

[Roy Hobbs]

I don't understand articles like this:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Chris-Henry-could-have-been-a-very-important-rol?urn=nfl,209517

Didn't Henry die in a "domestic dispute"?  Isn't it fair, then, to question (as nick does above) whether he really had turned his life around?  I don't wish the guy dead, but I'm also not going to hold him up as a shining example of somebody who turned their life around.

I know it's uncouth to speak ill about the dead, and that's not my intention.  However, I don't think there's any rule that we have to glorify somebody who might not deserve it, either.

The whole thing is senseless.  It sounds like both Henry and his fiancee showed some poor judgment, with the police apparently determining (at least at this point) that the fiancee's actions were non-criminal (and therefore, reasonable.)  It's a stupid death, but until I know more, I'm not going to lament the death of a reformed man.

[Cman]

RIP.

[nickagneta]

My wife is a Victim's Advocate for Domestic Violence and I hear stories of domestic violence all the time and how the perpetrators get away with literally murder very often. It's a crime that still has a stigma in the law enforcement area where police look at these things as home problems to be dealt with at home and not crimes. Sad that so many law enforcement officers look at this this way, but they do.

So when something happens to a possible violent domestic offender, I don't shed a tear for those people. What happened to Henry is a bad thing, but if his fiance was fleeing for her safety from him and he got ejected from a moving vehicle and died while trying to cause her pain, I'm not going to waste may words of sympathy and lament his loss.

If he was trying to do her harm, he got exactly what he deserved, IMHO.

That said, I wish the Florida Highway Patrol did more of an investigation into the Tiger Woods situation. Again, another stigma. Men can't be victims of domestic violence. That's patently false and I think Tiger was.