Father of 4 walks outside and never comes back, wife seeks answers after cops find him shot 5 times near skate park less than an hour later

A begetter of 4 successful Colorado was recovered dying adjacent a Denver skate park, changeable 5 times little than an hr aft helium chatted with his wife and past walked outside. The alleged shooter claims helium opened fire connected the dada successful self-defense, according to the victim's wife.

"He ne'er came back," said Allison Hensley, woman of slain dada Jacob Hensley, successful an interrogation with section NBC affiliate KUSA. "It doesn't adhd up astatine all."

Jacob Hensley, 28, had been retired drinking that Thursday night, May 21, and arrived backmost astatine the couple's apartment, according to his wife.

"The kids were going to slumber and helium was similar falling, and I was like, you know, you request to permission oregon spell successful determination to that room," she told KUSA. "He went backmost outside."

Less than an hr aft walking out, cops say, Jacob Hensley was recovered dying adjacent the Denver Skatepark astatine the intersection of 20th and Little Raven Streets. "He was changeable 5 times," Allison Hensley told KUSA. "That's … overkill."

Allison Hensley said her hubby did not portion regularly, truthful erstwhile helium did that nighttime helium was "so drunk helium couldn't basal up." She described him arsenic a "great dad" and "amazing person" who was "very intelligent" and "very driven."

According to her, constabulary allege that Jacob was changeable by a idiosyncratic successful a car who is claiming self-defense, which she said did not marque sense.

"Someone who can't adjacent basal up and you person a car and a gun," Allison Hensley said. "I don't judge that helium was attacking anyone. I conscionable don't. That's conscionable not who helium was."

Jacob Hensley was known to transportation a pocketknife connected him that helium utilized for enactment arsenic a wide contractor, but his woman told KUSA helium would ne'er endanger idiosyncratic with it.

"He's pulling knives connected people? That's insane," Allison Hensley said. "I anticipation that there's justness for my kids," she told KUSA. "He did not merit to die."

Police accidental erstwhile they recovered Jacob Hensley, helium was critically wounded. Paramedics transported him to a section hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead.

"Investigators are successful interaction with everyone progressive successful this incident," the Denver Police Department posted connected X. "The probe is ongoing. No arrests astatine this time."

Allison Hensley, who was joined to Jacob for 10 years, wrote connected Facebook that her husband's decease "was abrupt and violent." She said her household is "still trying to process this unimaginable loss."