Bengals Receiver Dies After Accident

[classicman]

Chris Henry had reportedly been in North Carolina in part to plan his wedding while on injured reserve with a broken arm. But the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have described Henry’s accident as the result of a domestic dispute with his fiancée, who was identified by The Associated Press as Loleini Tonga. Her family lives in Charlotte. Henry was taken to the hospital Wednesday after being found on a residential road.

Henry was remembered as a soft-spoken, tremendously talented player who died just as he seemed to be emerging from several difficult years.

“He was good at what he did as a player, he was excellent,” Mike Brown, the owner of the Bengals, said at a news conference Thursday morning. “He was a teammate to our players, a friend to almost all of us in the building. We knew him in a different way than his public persona. We liked him. He had worked through troubles in his life and had finally seemingly reached the point where everything was going to blossom and he was going to have the future we all wanted for him and he wanted for himself.”

The police said the dispute began at a house about a half-mile from the accident scene. The A.P. reported that the house was owned by the Tonga family. Henry jumped into the bed of the pickup truck as his fiancée was driving away, and at some point Henry “came out of the back of the vehicle,” the police said, although it was not clear how.

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