Utah officer was paying off cancer bills when he was killed
Source: Associated Press
Utah officer was paying off cancer bills when he was killed
Jan 18, 6:35 PM EST
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The veteran Utah police officer who was shot to death over the weekend was working overtime to pay for his cancer treatments when he encountered a fugitive who went missing from a drug rehab center for parolees, officials said.
Unified police officer Douglas Scott Barney, 44, had been on the force 18 years when he encountered Cory Lee Henderson, 31, Sunday morning in a residential area near a church in the suburb of Holladay, about 8 miles southeast of downtown Salt Lake City.
Authorities say the incident began with a car crash involving Henderson and a woman in a BMW, when the two walked away from the wreck. Barney found Henderson nearby and the officer was shot in the head. Barney died hours later at a hospital.
Other officers responded and exchanged gunfire with Henderson, who died at the scene.
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Officer Douglas Scott Barney
Cory Lee Henderson, in the white hat. [/center]
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The chances are pretty good there was $300,000 dead peasants insurance policy on him - without his or his family's knowledge, of course.
