Former Officer Charged in Last Week's Shootout

Sam Penrod ReportingThe former Lehi police officer accused of going on a shooting rampage heard the charges against him today in court. Today, prosecutors charged Art Henderson will several felonies, including attempted aggravated murder. But Henderson did something two days before the shooting that makes one family call him a hero.

It has been a tough ten days for those who know Art Henderson, trying to make sense of it all. A Utah County couple met Henderson just two days before he was arrested, and credit him with saving someone's life.

Bob Humes was cutting down a large maple tree in his front yard when it somehow fell the wrong way and hit him on the head. Art Henderson just happened to be next door and ran to his rescue. He lifted the large tree off of Humes and opened his airway, since he was choking on his own blood. Henderson also went to the hospital and waited several hours for word on Bob's condition.

Bob is home recovering with 40 stitches, and his wife, who was not home at the time, credits Art Henderson in saving her husband's life.

Violet Humes: "I don't feel like my husband would be alive today if it wasn't for Art. He was standing on a neighbor's porch and saw everything, and ran over and helped my husband, or we would have been dead, I'm sure. He'll always be a hero in our eyes, no matter what people tell me."

Of course, it was what happened two days later that Henderson is most well known for. He allegedly shot and wounded his ex-wife's boyfriend, and then shot at his former colleagues in the Lehi Police Department when they arrived to the scene. Henderson was shot twice by the officers, in the knee and foot, before he was arrested.

Henderson was appointed a public defender today and will be back in court later this month. ¤

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