The wife of Larry Henderson, a Hamilton County sheriff’s deputy who prosecutors said was intentionally killed in May, has filed a lawsuit claiming her husband’s alleged killer and his family broke Ohio public policy and crowdfunded more than $100,000 after the crime.
Prosecutors said Rodney Hinton Jr., the father of an 18-year-old shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer one day earlier, left the police station during a meeting with Chief Teresa Theetge on Friday, May 2, and hours later got in his car and “ran over the first officer he saw.” That person was Henderson, a special deputy helping with traffic outside UC’s spring commencement.
In the lawsuit filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Lorena Henderson claims Rodney Hinton’s family used his “public status and notoriety gained solely through his criminal act of killing Deputy Henderson” to crowdfund money, mostly through the fundraising website GiveSendGo…