The late Angelo Henderson
Angelo B. Henderson, a former Detroit News reporter who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize at the Wall Street Journal, died Feb. 15, 2014 at age 51. He suffered a massive pulmonary embolism, a sudden blockage of a major blood vessel.
Felicia Henderson, a high-ranking editor at The News who was Henderson's wife, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Oakland County Circuit Court alleging that a surgeon's mistakes caused his death.
The suit alleges that Dr. Joseph Guettler of the Unasource Surgery Center in Troy operated on Henderson's leg three weeks before his death, but failed to prescribe blood thinners, physical therapy and other treatments that could have prevented a deadly blood clot, reports John Wisely of the Detroit Free Press.
Pulmonary embolism is often caused by clots that travel to the lungs from the legs.
Henderson, a Louisville, Ky., native, won a Pulitzer in 1998. He later returned to The News for a while, then left again to become a minister and radio personality on WCHB-AM.
