Aaron Hernandez, Football Player, Kills Himself in Prison - Apparently this is a national tragedy

MILFORD, Mass. -- Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, acquitted of a double murder just days ago, died after hanging himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning, Massachusetts prisons officials said.

Hernandez, 27, was found by guards in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley just after 3 a.m., Department of Correction spokesman Christopher Fallon said in a statement.

The former New England Patriots tight end was pronounced dead at UMass Memorial-HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster about an hour later.

Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population housing unit in the maximum security state prison. He hanged himself using a bed sheet that he attached to a cell window, Fallon said.

Hernandez tried to block the cell door from the inside by jamming the door with various items, Fallon said.

Hernandez was moved to tears on Friday after he was acquitted of the 2012 fatal shootings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston.

But he was still serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for his conviction in the 2013 shooting of Odin Lloyd, who was dating his fiancee's sister.

Massachusetts State Police remain on the scene investigating the death.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ots-te-aaron-hernandez-commits-suicide-prison

 

[AnOminous]

He's also "acquitted" of the one he was actually convicted of now. Because it was on appeal when he died, it's going to be abated.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/19/us/aaron-hernandez-conviction-abatement/

This is kind of bullshit for the family of his victim, who will now have a harder time suing his estate.

 

[TowinKarz]

SOmeone floated the idea this was all orchestrated to make his estate (and by extension, family) judgement-proof going forward. That's some Machiavellian movie-grade shit if it's true.

 

[AnOminous]

SOmeone floated the idea this was all orchestrated to make his estate (and by extension, family) judgement-proof going forward. That's some Machiavellian movie-grade shit if it's true.

It doesn't do that, really. Just means they have to prove it again. Since a criminal case was already won based on the same evidence, a civil case on a lower standard of evidence is still winnable.

 

[TowinKarz]

Well, he may have thought it would work.

This is the guy who thought that if he smashed all the physical security cameras in his house, he'd somehow erase the recordings they'd already made.... and thought hitting his cell phone a couple times with a hammer would make the data on it unrecoverable.

 

[proteus4994]

Bump because the murder case was dropped due to his suicide.

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/...der-conviction-is-tossed-after-suicide-050917

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) A judge on Tuesday erased a 2013 murder conviction against former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, ruling that case law in Massachusetts has long established that defendants who die before their appeals are heard should have their convictions vacated.

Bristol County Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh said she was compelled to follow precedent in ordering that Hernandez’s first-degree murder conviction be dismissed in the death of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. Hernandez killed himself in prison last month while serving a life sentence.

Lloyd’s mother fought back tears after the ruling Tuesday, saying the former New England Patriots tight end would always be guilty in the eyes of her family.


”In our book, he’s guilty, and he’s always going to be guilty,” Ursula Ward said during a news conference.

So now Hernandez has been acquitted of all 3 of his murders. I always knew he was innocent.