D.J. Henry's Family Files New Suit Against Mount Pleasant and Two Officers
The complaint alleges that police officers Kevin Gilmartin and Officer Ronald Gagnon neither checked on or sought treatment for the Easton native who had just been shot by Pleasantville police Officer Aaron Hess.
A second lawsuit against police officers who responded to reports of a crowd outside a Thornwood bar and shot an Easton native attending Pace University will be filed in federal court Oct. 12. Aaron Hess, a Pleasantville police officer, killed D.J. Henry on Oct. 17, 2010, shooting him from the hood of Henry's car as Henry was driving. He was not indicted by a Westchester County Grand Jury; the family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The U.S. Justice Department is also investigating. Michael Sussman, attorney for the Henry family, said the story coming out through depositions for the first lawsuit, which was filed against Hess and his employer the village of Pleasantville, drew a very different picture than that described by police right …
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Tony Johnson
11:18 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
I read on another website that Aaron Hess was granted medical retirement. Instead of facing the music for his misrepresentation (outright LIES IMHO) of the DJ Henry murder, he retires. Hopefully Hess and the officers who held DJ down AFTER he was shot ALL face some punishment more ›