(CNN) — Pace University students held a vigil Sunday night to mourn the shooting death of a college football player who was killed in police gunfire over the weekend.

Danroy Henry Jr., 20, was pronounced dead early Sunday after two officers shot at his vehicle. Police in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York said Henry struck two officers with his car and was driving toward a third when officers opened fire.

The incident occurred after police responded to a disturbance in a parking lot in front of a bar shortly after 1:00 a.m. Sunday, police said.

An officer had “observed a large group of unruly patrons” in front of Finnegan’s Grill in Thornwood, New York, and called for support.

Officers were breaking up fights, police said, when “a vehicle parked in the fire lane” accelerated. A police officer tried to stop the vehicle, which Henry was driving, but its mirror struck the officer, police said.

The officer “ended up on the hood,” police said.

Another police officer tried to pull the first one down from the hood, when the car struck him as well, according to police.

The officer on the hood opened fire at the driver, but the vehicle “continued in the fire lane heading directly towards another Mount Pleasant Officer, who also fired at the vehicle,” according to a police press release.

Henry was later pronounced dead at Westchester Medical Center. A passenger in the same car suffered a minor gunshot wound.

Some 50 police officers responded to the brawl, which continued after the shooting incident, according to police.

“We are beside ourselves,” Henry’s father, Danroy Henry, Sr., told CNN affiliate WCVB.

The father said he doubts the police version of the events.

“His coach called him today a man of high moral character,” the father said.

Student organizations at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York, carried lights from the school’s fitness center to its football field Sunday night in memory of Henry.