Skip Henderson grew up in Cartersville, Georgia at a time when that town had "very little crime and very little drugs," according to Bobby Carr, his basketball coach at Cartersville High School.
13 Facts About Skip Henderson
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Skip Henderson described Henderson as an "All-American kid" who was voted as Mr Cartersville High School by his peers.
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In high school, Skip Henderson played quarterback for the football team, point guard for the basketball team and played baseball in the spring.
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Skip Henderson enrolled at Marshall University, then a member of NCAA Division I's Southern Conference, in the fall of 1984 to play for the Thundering Herd men's basketball team.
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Skip Henderson led Marshall to three postseason tournaments: the 1985 and 1987 NCAA Tournaments as well as the 1988 National Invitation Tournament.
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Skip Henderson led the team in points per game in each of his four seasons, and in his final three seasons he led them in steals.
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Skip Henderson rewrote the school record books, among them is the still-standing records for points in a game.
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Skip Henderson was named the SoCon Player of the Year as a senior.
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Skip Henderson was then selected third overall by the Charleston Gunners of the Continental Basketball Association in the 1988 CBA Draft, but two days before the season's opening game, the CBA suspended Skip Henderson for testing positive for cocaine use.
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Skip Henderson pleaded guilty to one count of burglary and four counts of forgery in January 1991, and one count of robbery by intimidation and one count of first-degree forgery in March 1992.
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On September 24,2001, Skip Henderson hijacked a car at gunpoint, kidnapped the driver for a brief amount of time, robbed a convenience store for petty cash, and threatened the store clerk with the gun.
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Skip Henderson said that his wife had just died and it was an emotionally turbulent time for him, which is why he got back into drugs.
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The crimes he committed that evening landed him in prison, and since he was a repeat offender, Skip Henderson was given life without parole.