NFL star Chris Henry has died as a result of the injuries he sustained after falling out of the back of a moving pick-up truck yesterday.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police tell TMZ Henry died at 6:36 AM EST this morning.

He was 26.

As we previously reported, cops believe Henry -- a wide receiver on the Cincinnati Bengals -- jumped into the back of the truck, in an attempt to stop his fiancee from leaving a "domestic situation" at her parents' home in North Carolina.

Henry was rushed to a local hospital -- where he passed away this morning.

Authorities tell us they're still investigating the situation.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0ZxTStIPF

So I've got Chris Henry on my fantasy team. Anyone up for a trade?

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Team Cutler.

Considering he's been on IR the past month he's really been giving you a lot of points and yards.

These things happen in three's...

first the Bears, then the Cowboys...and now this.

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Crazy.

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Pretty good heartfelt article about Henry on Yahoo Sports:

Chris Henry, dead at 26, could have been a role model
By MJD

Redemption stories are the best kinds of stories. If someone's failed, lost their way or made more mistakes than we deem acceptable, I always find myself on that guy's side.

I'm not there supporting what they've done or making excuses for them, but hoping that they'll find a way to be better. Hoping that they'll learn from their mistakes, grow and become the person they can be. In one way or another, I think we're all striving for that.

That's what Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry was doing when he lost his life this morning after falling out of a truck reportedly driven by his fiancee.

We know the guy had made mistakes, getting arrested multiple times and being suspended for half of the 2007 season, but those aren't important today. That was Henry's past. By all accounts, his future was better and brighter, because he had worked his tail off to make it that way. Changing your life is not easy.

Henry was doing it, though. In the preseason, his quarterback, Carson Palmer(notes), had raved about Henry's work ethic and his ability. According to Palmer, Henry had a great offseason and had "really turned his life around." Unfortunately, his season was cut short by injury when he broke his forearm against the Ravens on November 8.

He was 26 when he lost his life this morning. Just 26 years old. For as many headlines as he had made, it seemed like he should be older. The fact was, though, that he was still a very young man. He was just entering his football prime, and considering his natural gifts and the signs he had been showing before being put on injured reserve this year, he could have gone on to have a great, great career.

That's the tragedy here. It's not that we'll miss out on seeing a man who could have been a brilliant player, it's that someone who had once been so far down the wrong path could have come back. He was on his way. If things had continued to go the way they were headed, Chris Henry could have one day stood in front of the world as an example that no matter what you've done in the past, that your future can be better. He could have told the at-risk youth of the world, "Yes, it can be difficult to change the direction of your life, but it can be done, and you have the power to do it. I did it, and you can do it."

What a great thing that could've been for the world to have. Too many times, a gifted person comes along, and we automatically make them a role model. Inevitably, they end up doing something to let us down. The truth is, though, that those were never the role models we needed. The role models we need are the people who let us down first, and then show the strength and character to fight back from that.

Sooner or later, we're all going to let somebody down. We're all going to screw up. But life is about how you come back from it, how you learn from it and how you use it to make yourself a better, stronger person.

Chris Henry was becoming that guy. And we could have used that.

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Possible suicide, per Sportsbybrooks:

Lee Hardy, a neighbor, said he was trimming his trees on a 15-foot ladder as he watched the yellow pickup truck zoom past him - with Henry in the bed and his fiancee Loleini Tonga at the wheel.

“He was banging on the top, on the doors, screaming at the lady, ‘We need to talk,’” Hardy said.

“He said, ‘If you take off, I’m going to jump off the truck and kill myself,’ ” Hardy said.

Hardy said he was less than 2 feet from Tongas’ driveway when the pickup drove past. He said it was going about 25 to 30 mph.

Hardy also talked about Tonga as a neighbor.

The alleged eyewitness to the incident told Whitaker that the Tonga family were “great neighbors” and that one of Tonga’s sons often mowed his lawn.

Homicide detectives are investigating the incident but have not charged Tonga with a crime and she has not been arrested or taken in for questioning. For what it’s worth, ESPN News reported earlier today that Charlotte police have also not instructed Tonga to remain in the area.

As posted earlier, an alleged eyewitness who attended to the injured Henry said she hear Tonga say to police that Henry jumped off the truck.

Police are moving extremely cautiously in this case and I haven’t seen, heard or read a consensus of opinion that indicates how the masses feel about what really happened. One of the big questions that remains is if there are more witnesses out there with definitive accounts of Tuesday’s tragic events. The answer could explain the current pace of the police investigation.

UPDATE: WCNC-TV in Charlotte has more about Hardy’s alleged eyewitness account and his interaction with police:

“And he (Henry) was demanding, ‘We need to talk,’” said neighbor Lee Hardy.

Hardy says he was trimming a tree very close to the driveway of the Tonga home. The truck stopped about 30 feet away. He says Henry was yelling.

“‘We need to talk. We need to talk.’ She (Tonga) was saying, ‘No, I don’t want to talk. Get off the truck,’” Hardy said.

Before the truck sped away, Hardy heard a comment that adds suicide to the potential list of causes of the accident.

“He said, ‘If you take off I’m going to jump out and kill myself,’” Hardy said.

Police interviewed Hardy Thursday evening. Officers called the retired DMV employee credible and said his story is consistent with some of the other facts they have gathered during the investigation.

"If you load that gun I'm going to kill myself,"
Would that line still lead to a suicide theory?

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