Call led to a violent encounter

Natalie Henderson was home on the morning of Jan. 27 when she says Art Henderson called and asked which of the couple's five children were with her.

She told him three were and, answering his questions, said she was not going to work and that her boyfriend, Craig Trimble, was not at work, either.

"Is he there?" she says Henderson asked.

"Yes."

"Good," she says Henderson said. And then he hung up.

"I knew we were in trouble," Natalie Henderson says. "I had fled the house a few times before, but he had always called from his parents' house in Highland. I didn't know he was on his cell phone and so close by."

As Trimble pulled their car out of the driveway, Henderson's truck sped into their cul-de-sac.

"Craig slowed down," she says, "and I yelled at him to keep going."

Trimble and Natalie Henderson believe Art Henderson threw something at their car. Trimble called 911. Henderson chased them through residential streets until they neared her parents' home on 1500 North.

Henderson used a police tactic to stop their car, then allegedly opened fire with a handgun. Natalie Henderson says Trimble jumped on top of her as the shooting started.

"It seemed like the shooting lasted forever," she says.

Trimble was struck three times, she says, once in the abdomen, once in the thigh and once in the ankle. The last shot shattered the bone from his knee to his ankle.

"He's reloading," she remembers Trimble yelling. "I've got to get out."

Trimble climbed over her and out the passenger's door, but she was stuck half in the car and half out. Trimble crawled safely into a house.

She says Henderson approached her.

"Did you forget I knew how to do (that) maneuver?" he asked.

She says his demeanor then changed.

"Are you shot?" he asked.

"I don't know," she answered.

"Tell Mom and Dad that I love them," he continued. "Tell my kids I love them and goodbye."

Henderson then turned to exchange gunfire with Lehi police officers. He was shot twice; once in the leg, once in the foot.