John Eric Henderson

How they died

Deadly force

A local officer stopped Henderson for his loud muffler and a plate that belonged on another car. The officer had been patrolling solo for only four days. When Henderson went to retrieve his paperwork from the glove box, the officer mistook, he said, a cologne bottle for the butt of a gun, and fatally shot him. The officer was booked for criminally negligent homicide but ultimately acquitted.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that John Eric Henderson, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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