Stanley Henney, a 41-year-old officer at California State University, Hayward, was shot and killed inside the campus police station on May 30, 1977. He and fellow officer Gary Hart were both killed when a colleague opened fire; a third officer was wounded. The shooter was reported to have been believed to be suffering from mental illness.

Henney was a Korean War veteran and had served with the CSU Hayward Police Department for 14 years. The shooter was initially convicted of first-degree murder for Hart’s death and second-degree murder for Henney’s, but after new evidence prompted a retrial the case returned to court on January 30, 1984, when the shooter was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and given a sentence of five years to life.