An alleged burglar died three days after he was injured during a burglary and briefly fought police officers.
Michael Seane Henderson, 34, of Denver, was pronounced dead at Denver Health Medical Center at 9:48 a.m. Sunday, according to a Tuesday police report by Det. David Neil.
Demitres Proctor, 15, said he was walking home at about 10 p.m. Thursday when he saw a man use his arm to break a plate-glass window across the street in the front of a home at 1705 E. 29th Ave.
“He busted the window and jumped in,” Proctor said. “You could see blood on the window.”
Proctor said someone chased the man out of the house. The man was screaming for help, he said.
Two other witnesses said they also heard a man screaming for help before police arrived.
“I heard him saying ‘Help, please help,'” said Elena Pasillas, 20, who lives across the street from where the burglary happened. “After he was screaming for help, he was saying, ‘Please don’t.'”
Then she said she heard a loud noise that sounded like someone hitting the back of a car. Police arrived moments later, she said.
They found Henderson lying in the front yard of the home with a gash on his arm, said Sonny Jackson, Denver police spokesman.
“(Henderson) was arrested but resisted officers,” Neil’s police report says.
Jackson said Henderson was breathing heavily and had the gash so officers called for an ambulance.
Pasillas said a police officer knocked on her door a few minutes later and when she opened the door she could see paramedics performing CPR on someone lying on the sidewalk.
Jackson said Henderson was taken to the hospital for treatment.
“He was a big guy,” he said. Henderson weighed 277 pounds.
Henderson was pronounced dead Sunday morning, Neil’s report says.
Pasillas has two young children and the incident was frightening for them.
Henderson was charged Saturday with assault, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records.
Dating to 1998, Henderson has been charged numerous times for mostly misdemeanor offenses including assault, destruction of property, trespassing, petty larceny, disturbing the peace and drunken driving, according to CBI records.
In July 2000 he was charged with disobeying a lawful order by an officer, CBI records indicate. The disposition of the case is not clear.
Henderson was charged with felony menacing and illegal possession of a weapon in 2004 and served jail time and an 18-month probationary sentence.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com
