Chris Henry of the Cincinnati Bengals was about to turn his trouble-filled life around when his efforts were cut short.  In his career spanning five seasons, he led a career that was promising as it was troublesome.  Tougher personal conduct policies of the NFL were primarily a product of the league being wary about players like Henry, who often figured in arrests. Everyone in the Bengals team, including the manager and owner, has been united in saying that the wide receiver of their team has been showing determination to straighten up and leave his troubled history so that he could move on to a more peaceful future.  Unfortunately, this was not fully realized as Henry died on December 17, 2009 due to injuries.  Police have reported that a dispute with his fiancée caused the injuries that resulted in his death. Police have released a statement stating that Henry, 26, died 18 hours after he fell on a residential street from the back of a pickup truck.  The residential area where Henry fell off is around 8 miles off downtown Charlotte.  This statement was not released until much later.  Henry had his season end earlier as he suffered from a broken forearm which he got from a recent game. Chris Henry's plans disrupted When news of his death spread throughout the weekend, members and staff of the Cincinnati team were quick to issue statements of support and testimonies to Henry’s character.  Mike Brown, owner of the Bengals, was quoted in saying that Henry has been working to resolve his life’s conflicts to the point that they have been expecting him to blossom and finally get the future that everyone wanted for him.  Team member and Bengals’ wide receiver Andre Caldwell said that Henry had a big heart even though people thought he was a bad guy. Details about Henry's death Clues about the athlete’s death have sprung from tapes of conversations with 911 and neighbor accounts.  A neighbor has told the media that he saw Henry yelling to a woman who was inside the pickup truck before it left the driveway.  The neighbor said that he heard Henry threaten the woman driver that he will jump off the truck and kill himself if the woman takes off. As with the 911 tapes, there were two recorded conversations, with the first one coming from an unidentified woman who identified a man at the back of the truck with no shirt on, an arm in a cast and black pants who was beating on the back truck window. A minute later, another man called 911 to report the same man “lying on the road” and “definitely unconscious.” Loleni Tonga, Henry’s fiancée, was seen by the police at the scene when they responded to the calls.  The Bengals wore a special sticker on their helmets, while NFL teams who had games on Sunday following Henry's death were asked to observe a moment of silence to commemorate Chris Henry.