Defending DJ
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[Music] That day was full of laughs. We got there, the energy was great. My whole family was there. I think I made all the games and the homecoming. We were all there. We were driven up and we were there to see the game. DJ, he was my shadow. He and I were together all the time. My family is really close. Really close, always been really close. We are like our own little universe. The five of us. Dad called them DJ. Mom would call him Danny. Danny. Always. He was the surrogate dad to his siblings. They looked up to him. I struggled with math as a high school student. He'd be the first one to sit down and be like, "Okay, well, let's figure it out." He was, oh my gosh, a joy. A pied piper in the neighborhood. All of the kids loved him. The biggest smile you've ever seen. And a very gentle spirit. We had driven up there the same day, watched the game, hung out, and then drove back home. So, very early in the morning, I was starting awake and I said to Angela, "Someone is at the door." It was two police officers. They said, "Mr. Henry, your son has been in an accident." He handed me a slip of paper and said, "You need to call this number." The nurse on the phone said, "Are you Mrs. Henry?" I said, "Yes, I heard my son was in an accident." Then I kept saying, "Well, what happened? What happened?" And she said, "He was shot." And I said, "Who would shoot him?" I can't understand who would shoot him. The nurse gave the phone to one of the attending physicians who got on the phone and said, "He died." I remember just falling to my knees. DJ Henry was a 20-year-old paced university junior back in October of 2010 when he was fatally shot in his car. I heard what sounded like firefighters, and I heard a car screech. I didn't think anything of it.
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"48 Hours" goes inside a family’s mission to restore their son’s reputation seven years after he was fatally shot by a police officer. CBS News special correspondent James Brown reports.