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For all we know he may have fallen out and she backed or ran over him.

As much of a loose cannon as Henry has been up to this point I would say he was chasing her probably to do harm to her, and she tried to get away from him....I can actually picture him punching on the windows and her trying to get away and trying to throw him out of the truck.....I am sure there is more to this story than what we know at this point, but given his past I would say he was at fault for this whole thing......and while I hope he gets better, I think the best place for him is a jail cell!

Checked 2 sources to make sure it was true.
R.I.P.Chris


http://www.wcnc.com/sports/Bengals-wide-receiver-involved-in-Charlotte-wreck-79449252.html#comments

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/topstories/story/1128580.html

Damn, that news sucks.

Shame...I heard he was trying to turn it around. We'll never know.

Sad for the children and family. RIP CH.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/17/nfl-star-chris-henry-dies/

TMZ is reporting that Chris has passed. Authorities still investigating the situation.

RIP Chris...Wow! So sad!

WOW,, that's damn sad news.... RIP Chris

Wow, that's just terrible. I was really hoping he'd pull through. RIP Chris. Sorry you just couldn't get your life straight.

Hopefully the "good" to come out of this will be that somewhere, sometime, another athlete (or anyone) learns a lesson from this.

Wow that's terrible... May he rest in peace.

Sad, R.I.P. Chris....Hopefully your at peace now.

Henry, 26, dies day after disputeComment Email Print Share ESPN.com news services

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry has died, one day after falling out of the back of a pickup truck in what authorities described as a domestic dispute with his fiancee.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Henry died at 6:36 a.m. Thursday. Henry was 26.



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Henry was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after being found on a residential road "apparently suffering life-threatening injuries," according to police.

Police said a dispute began at a home about a half-mile away, and Henry jumped into the bed of the pickup truck as his fiancee was driving away from the residence.

Police said at some point when she was driving, Henry "came out of the back of the vehicle." They wouldn't identify the woman, and no charges were immediately filed.

Police spokeswoman Rosalyn Harrington said homicide detectives have been assigned to the case but had no further information. Police have not released the 911 tapes, and Harrington wouldn't say if the woman was present at the scene when police arrived.

Henry is engaged to Loleini Tonga, and the couple has been raising three children. Tonga's MySpace page identifies herself as "Mrs. C. Henry" and has a picture of her next to a person who appears to be Henry. She also has a post from Tuesday talking about buying wedding rings. A neighbor said Wednesday that the Tonga family owns the home where police say the incident began. Charlotte is home to his fiancee's parents.

Henry was away from the team after breaking his left forearm during a win over Baltimore on Nov. 8. He had surgery and was placed on season-ending injured reserve following the game.

Throughout his career, his temper and poor decisions got him in trouble.

He was ejected from a game and suspended for another at West Virginia, where former coach Rich Rodriguez told Henry that he was an embarrassment to himself and the program. His reputation was already costing him -- the Bengals were the only NFL team to bring him in for a pre-draft visit in 2005.

They found that his demeanor didn't match his reputation. Henry was shy and spoke in a quiet voice. They warned him that he had to stay in control if he was going to stay in the NFL. Then, they picked him in the third round.

In a sense, it was already a second chance.

"I'm worth the chance," Henry said, when he showed up the following weekend for a rookie minicamp. "I'm just happy they took me."

Henry become a vital part of the offense as a rookie, helping the Bengals reach the playoffs in 2005 with his ability to run past defenders to grab long passes. In the final month of the season, he also showed his other side, getting arrested for marijuana possession. After a playoff loss to Pittsburgh, he was arrested on a gun charge in Florida.

Henry and former Tennessee cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones became the league's two most trouble-bound players. Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended both in 2007 -- Jones for a full season, Henry for half of it -- as part of a toughening of the league's conduct policy.

When Henry was arrested for a fifth time following that season on an assault charge, the Bengals decided they'd had enough. At his arraignment on April 3, 2008, Municipal Court Judge Bernie Bouchard called Henry "a one-man crime wave." He was released by the Bengals the same day.

It was a jolt to Henry, who had dreamed of an NFL career since high school, when he got the NFL logo tattooed on the back of his right hand. No team showed an interest in bringing him back. His career seemed finished.

Then, Bengals owner Mike Brown -- who refers to himself as "a redeemer" -- changed his mind and gave him another chance.

"If you only knew him by hearsay, you'd think he's some kind of ogre," Brown said, during the Bengals' appearance on HBO's "Hard Knocks" series this summer. "It's not true. He's a good person. When you see him up close, you'll find that you'll like him. He'll be a soft-spoken, pleasant person."

This time, Henry seemed determined to stay out of trouble. After only 19 catches and two touchdowns in 12 games in the 2008 season, he set about making himself a top-flight receiver again. He got into top shape and worked out with teammates in the offseason, showing more resolve than at any point in his career.

Henry also changed his personal life, spending more time with his fiancee and the children they are raising. Teammates noticed a pronounced change in his demeanor.

"He's a great kid with a great heart," quarterback Carson Palmer said as training camp started. "He's changed his life around. He ran into some trouble, made some bad decisions, and realized that. He's sorry for them, apologized for them, and has done everything he can to make himself a better person. I'm just proud of him."

Before the 2009 season, Henry got a new tattoo that matched his new outlook. Below his left ear, in flowing one-inch script, was the world "Blessed."

"I kind of felt like I dug myself out of the hole and started doing the right things," Henry said in an interview with The Associated Press as training camp opened. "People say, 'How you feeling now Chris? You doing all right?' I just tell them I'm blessed. That's why I got it."

He caught a touchdown pass in each of Cincinnati's four preseason games. A thigh injury slowed him early in the season, and he had 12 catches for 236 yards -- his 19.7-yard average per catch leads the team -- when he broke his left arm during a win over Baltimore on Nov. 22, ending his season.

When he showed up in the locker room for the first time since surgery to fix the fracture, Henry sounded confident he could get through the latest setback.

"It just comes with time, you know?" he said. "I learned to handle all situations, so I'll be all right."

The Bengals (9-4), in the midst of their best season since winning 11 games in 2005, lead the AFC North and play host to the San Diego Chargers on Sunday.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

Just read the story myself. That's terrible news. Tragedy for his family, especially around the holidays.

It's a shame for him that he was unable to conduct his life as well as he was able to play football. He could've been great.

just clicking...

sad news, it was sounding like he was finally getting his head on straight and performing on the field. RIP Chris

Sad, just sad. RIP young Mr. Henry.

Wow... 26. Way, way too young.

RIP CH...

RIP. The kid made mistakes in life but damn, he was 26, he was still a kid. My condolences to his family.

This is crazy man. The guy was starting to get his act together too! The guy is just a few years younger then me! Way to young

R.I.P. Chris Henry

While it stinks for his family I really wasn't surprised to hear he met his end while engaging in yet another crime . Doesn't sound as if the world lost an important piece of the puzzle .JMHO

I understand Henry was no saint. However I'm interested in what makes one person life more valuable then another? For all you know Chris might have finally been trying to get his life back together.

A person who does what a "normal " person is "supposed to do like oh...say.. not beat his fiance , not give alcohol to underage girls,not punch a valet in the face , not carry an illegal handgun etc.. is to me a little more valuable part of society than someone like Chris Henry whos only seemingly saving grace was his ability to entertain us via his ability to play a game . Do I wish something bad to happen to him ? No but neither will I say that I regret his passing aside from sparing a thought for his family.

Seatbelt violation?

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However I'm interested in what makes one person life more valuable then another?

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From a Biblical standpoint, nothing.

From a human beings perspective, the only honest answer I can give you is what they contribute to (or take away from) society.

Is the life of a nurse devoted to helping sick children more valuable than a child molester? I would say so. But this isn't about comparing Chris Henry to somebody else, he wasn't drifting out to sea with another person and we only had a chance to save one of them. He had some troubles in his life... was he moving past those troubles? I have no idea. The thing is he was 26, he should have had all kinds of time to correct the mistakes he made in his life but it was cut short. and that in itself is sad.

May be calloused but it is only my opinion .

RIP Chris.

She probably swerved to try to get him off the truck. I think anyone would have done the same. Unfortunately, we don't think what the consequences are of them falling off. Humans are not Terminator 2.


Sad to see him leave this earth.

I was hoping he'd pull through. As others have said, it seems he may have been getting on track.
Shows how fleeting life really is is. One minute you're getting ready for Christmas..... the next minute, you're not.

Later Thursday, police released two 911 tapes. The first was from an unidentified woman who said she was following a yellow pickup truck.

"It's got a black man on it with no shirt on, and he's got his arm in a cast and black pants on," she told a dispatcher. "He's beating on the back of this truck window. ... I don't know if he's trying to break in or something. It just looks crazy. It's a girl driving it."

A little more than a minute later, an unidentified man called 911 and said he saw a man "laying in the road" and "definitely unconscious."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4750615