WPIX NEWSROOM

5:55 a.m. EST, February 15, 2011
MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. (WPIX)—
On Monday, a Westchester County grand jury decided a Pleasantville police officer committed no crime when he fired fatal shots at 20-year-old Pace University student Danroy "DJ" Henry.

In a controversial decision Grand Jurors refused to indict. Henry's father told reporters this tonight: "what we need to do though is try to make sure people understand what happened...because what happened was murder."

Danroy Henry was killed by police on October 17, 2010 after a huge bar brawl spilled into a parking lot. Investigators say after being asked to move his car Henry drove straight at police, knocking one onto the hood and that's when cops opened fire in fear for their lives. Toxicology reports showed Henry was legally drunk.

Monday night, his father renewed his demand for an independent investigation.

Attorney Bonita Zelman represents a group of students arrested in the melee that night.

She was unavailable for comment this evening in an earlier interview she accused Westchester's DA of a conflict of interest telling PIX 11 News "the District Attorney of Westchester County, Janet DiFiore has assigned the very same local police department, Mt. Pleasant...to investigate themselves."

Late Monday, the United States Department of Justice announced plans to review the evidence looking for any federal civil rights violations in the Danroy Henry shooting.