announced in 2015 that they would not bring civil rights charges, saying a thorough review of evidence did not show that Pleasantville officer Aaron Hess acted with deliberate and specific intent to break the law.
The officer was previously cleared by a grand jury.Hess shot Henry as Henry drove through a parking lot, away from a disturbance that spilled out of a bar in October 2010 in Mount Pleasant, a New York City suburb.Hess has said Henry was trying to run him down and that he fired through the windshield to stop the driver.The Henrys have said Hess jumped front of the car, got onto the hood and shot their son for no good reason.