Cops At Work

CONCORD, N.H. - Video taken from Franconia Police Cpl. Bruce McKay’s cruiser shows him pepper-spraying the driver of a car he had stopped, turn away and walk off camera as the driver sticks a handgun out the window and fires repeatedly.

Authorities released the video Monday along with photographs and about 1,000 pages of transcribed statements from witnesses of the May 11 shooting that took McKay’s life.

A passing motorist who said he was trying to protect McKay picked up the gun and killed the driver moments later, but that shooting was not captured on tape.

The pepper-spraying and shooting lasts all of six or seven seconds. After McKay pushes Liko Kenney Kenney’s blue coupe off the road with his sport utility police cruiser, Kenney reaches out the driver’s side window and appears to wave someone away.

McKay, 48, strides up and sprays through the window. Kenney’s passenger is seen covering his face and turning away as Kenney reaches out with a handgun and starts firing.

Kenney then tries to leave - he drives over McKay’s body - but doesn’t get far. Moments later, also off camera, Kenney is shot dead by ex-Marine Gregory W. Floyd.

Dashboard video from Bruce McKay’s cruiser:

Video of Encounter between Kenney and McKay four years earlier:

Rest in peace, officer.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol released dramatic video of the high-speed chase south on I-75 that ended in a shooting suspect’s death.  They also reported the name of the suspect.  He was Danti Henry, 29, who most recently lived in Michigan in the Detroit area.It all began in the Bowling Green BMV office Saturday morning when Henry allegedly presented false documents when trying to get an ID card. BMV staff called in a Bowling Green police officer who struggled with the suspect. Henry fired his gun, then ran away. What followed was a high-speed chase involving multiple law enforcement agencies as the suspect led officers down I-75 from Bowling Green to Bluffton.

The 100 MPH chase ended in the parking lot of a Sterling Store after officers flattened the minivan’s tires with stop sticks. Henry got out of the minivan and fired at officers as he got into another vehicle occupied by a woman from Canada.  Her husband was outside, pumping gas. Officers returned the fire, killing Henry.

The Highway Patrol’s video shows Henry getting out of his minivan at the Sterling Store, zig-zagging through the gas station parking lot, and firing his gun at the State Highway Patrol troopers. They say the suspect had a total of three guns with him, and he was wearing a bullet-proof vest at the time of the incident.

There’s no word on Henry’s motivation for the shootout.  He was supposed to be sentenced on an unrelated drug case in the Detroit area soon.  He also had a number false IDs with him Saturday.

The Hancock County coroner said a single gunshot to the neck is what killed Henry. Another shot hit him in the jaw. Two troopers were wounded in the shootout.  The Canadian woman suffered a superficial wound.

Walbridge-based Trooper Chuck Gizzard, 37, was shot in the hand and is off-duty due to his injuries.  Findlay-based Trooper Albert Leitenberger, 47, is still in St. Rita Medical Center in Lima. He was shot in the arm, and underwent a second surgery Monday. The injury was called fairly serious.  “He’s been able to move his fingers, and that’s encouraging,” said Captain Richard Collins of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.  “His doctors tell him that’s encouraging.”

A woman who was traveling with the suspect got out of the minivan when it slowed before heading onto I-75 as the suspect fled the Bowling Green scene. She was apprehended by officers, who identified her as Barbara Jean Clark from Southview, Michigan. Police say she has a prior history of prostitution arrests.  She was booked on a charge of consiracy to commit robbery, and has a court date scheduled for next Monday.

Officials tell News 11 that Clark is six months pregnant. There’s no word on what her relationship was with Henry.

Authorities are puzzled as to why this whole ordeal even happened.. The Hancock County Prosecutor says by law they must treat Henry’s death as a homicide.  ”It will be submitted to the Hancock grand jury. I think the tape is pretty evident in terms of why the officers acted in the way and fashion that they did,” said Robert Fry, the Hancock County Prosecutor.

Video #1: Chase
Video #2: Media Coverage
Video #3: Highway Patrol Video of High-Speed Chase and Shootout