Danroy “DJ” Henry: 20 years old 

Favorite song: “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z, 

“Best I Ever Had” by Drake 

Favorite colors: blue and Burberry plaid 

Danroy “DJ” Henry was a 20 year old football player at the Pace University Pleasantville campus. At about 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 16, 2010, DJ Henry and others went to Finnegan's in Thornwood, New York, a bar where many Pace players planned to gather that night after the homecoming game. There a shoving match began between two men not involved in DJ Henry's group of friends. 

Police from two departments responded to the fight. After an officer asked Henry to move his Nissan Altima that was in a fire zone, he drove across a parking lot and onto an access road. 

Off-duty Pleasantville police officer Aaron Hess stepped in front of the car and ended up on the hood. Hess fired through the windshield, killing Henry and wounding one of his friends. The officer said he believed Henry was trying to run him over.  

Hess has said he repeatedly shouted for the car to stop and only fired shots into the vehicle's windshield when he ended up on the hood and DJ Henry accelerated. However, some witnesses say Hess fired the first gunshot before he was on top of the sedan. A fellow officer later admitted to firing a gunshot at Hess because he thought Hess was "the aggressor" and Hess himself admitted several years later that he could have stepped out of the way of the car. Ambulance personnel called to the scene treated Hess for a leg injury before turning to Henry, who bled out on the pavement handcuffed as witnesses begged them for help. 

Hess was named Officer of the Year in April 2011 by the Pleasantville police union and has never been tried in Henry’s death. In 2016, Henry’s family accepted a $6 million settlement from Hess and the town of Mount Pleasant. 

After his death, DJ’s family founded the DJ Henry Dream Fund, which provides community-based scholarships to Massachusetts children between the ages of 5 to 18.