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September 28th, 2007, 10:54 AM
This is a long article about Hendricks, his relationship with Doug Flutie and his family and the murder charges he's facing in California.
By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff | September 28, 2007
LA JOLLA, Calif. - The surf thunders ashore at the foot of a hillside vista where Hank Hendricks, Doug Flutie's close friend and protégé, allegedly helped four assailants leave a man, beaten and bloodied, for dead.
A skateboarder slaloms past the crime scene, a street corner where fine cars gleam before million-dollar homes with million-dollar views of the sun-dappled sea shimmering to the horizon.
Four blocks away sprawls La Jolla High School, where Flutie and Hendricks formed a special bond in this picture-postcard enclave of wealth and privilege - a tie that endures as Flutie tries to help the young man he guided from California's Gold Coast to the University of New Hampshire football team fight a murder charge that could land him in prison for life.
Their families are so close that after Flutie helped Hendricks secure a football scholarship at UNH - and Flutie left the San Diego Chargers for the Patriots - the Hendrickses relocated to Flutie's hometown of Natick, Mass. There, Hank's younger brother, Nick, enrolled at Natick High School with his girlfriend, Alexa, Flutie's daughter.
"I would be very proud if Hank were my son," Flutie said in an interview. "He's a great kid."
In big trouble.
Several weeks before Flutie and Hendricks attended a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert together in June in Gilford, N.H., Hendricks, 21, began his summer break from UNH by returning to La Jolla to visit relatives and old friends. The wrong friends, it turned out.
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/football/articles/2007/09/28/a_night_of_drinking_fighting_death/?page=1
By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff | September 28, 2007
LA JOLLA, Calif. - The surf thunders ashore at the foot of a hillside vista where Hank Hendricks, Doug Flutie's close friend and protégé, allegedly helped four assailants leave a man, beaten and bloodied, for dead.
A skateboarder slaloms past the crime scene, a street corner where fine cars gleam before million-dollar homes with million-dollar views of the sun-dappled sea shimmering to the horizon.
Four blocks away sprawls La Jolla High School, where Flutie and Hendricks formed a special bond in this picture-postcard enclave of wealth and privilege - a tie that endures as Flutie tries to help the young man he guided from California's Gold Coast to the University of New Hampshire football team fight a murder charge that could land him in prison for life.
Their families are so close that after Flutie helped Hendricks secure a football scholarship at UNH - and Flutie left the San Diego Chargers for the Patriots - the Hendrickses relocated to Flutie's hometown of Natick, Mass. There, Hank's younger brother, Nick, enrolled at Natick High School with his girlfriend, Alexa, Flutie's daughter.
"I would be very proud if Hank were my son," Flutie said in an interview. "He's a great kid."
In big trouble.
Several weeks before Flutie and Hendricks attended a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert together in June in Gilford, N.H., Hendricks, 21, began his summer break from UNH by returning to La Jolla to visit relatives and old friends. The wrong friends, it turned out.
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/football/articles/2007/09/28/a_night_of_drinking_fighting_death/?page=1