U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Tuesday said his office will not pursue federal criminal charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a college student in Westchester by a police officer who says he shot him in his moving car when he failed to stop.
The U.S. attorney says the evidence does not support pursuing federal criminal charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Danroy Henry, Jr., who was a student at Pace University. Henry, from Massachusetts, was killed during an encounter with police officers from the Pleasantville and Mount Pleasant Police Departments in October 2010. Bharara says the evidence did not establish the standard of criminal intent required for a federal criminal civil rights prosecution. Henry was shot in his car as he drove through a parking lot at the Thornwood Shopping Center away from a disturbance that spilled out of a bar on Homecoming Day.
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