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Former Patriots player and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez Tango Uniform
2017-04-19
[FOX] Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star who was convicted of murder in 2015, killed himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning, officials said.

Hernandez, 27, was found hanging in his cell by corrections officers around 3:05 a.m. at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center, Massachusetts Department of Correction officials said in a statement.

He was pronounced dead an hour later.

Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population housing unit and hanged himself with a bed sheet attached to his cell window. He also tried blocking his door from the inside with various items, officials said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  "The ruling on the field stands.

Mr. Hernandez did not get both feet on the ground in time"
Posted by: Frank G   2017-04-19 19:08  

#11  He spilled a drink on himself. He had to pay for disrespectin' hisself
Posted by: Frank G   2017-04-19 18:54  

#10  Just heard on Howie Carr's show - 'When his lawyers told Hernandez to hang in there, they didn't mean it literally.'
Posted by: Raj   2017-04-19 18:19  

#9  There is a very good chance he did not know what acquitted meant.
Posted by: Airandee    2017-04-19 17:01  

#8  Herb McCoy7309, except the snitch might have changed the course of the recent trial so its not really all that ironic.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-04-19 16:33  

#7  The guy he went to prison for murdering, he murdered because he thought the guy was going to snitch.

He was just acquitted in the double murder case that he committed the murder to avoid. So I'm sure it was the horrible irony that made him lose hope and end his life.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309   2017-04-19 15:51  

#6  Thank you, AlanC.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-04-19 15:21  

#5  What I don't understand is the suicide after he was acquitted recently in a different case. Did he think he'd be released from the first sentence or something? Did someone say something to him and really amp up the guilt?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-04-19 13:31  

#4  Nope TW, it was murder pure and simple. IIRC this was most like a mafia hit where they took the victim out in the woods and AH capped him.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-04-19 12:55  

#3  One assumes he didn't tie the proper neck-breaking knot, and did not have a long enough drop to break it anyway. An unpleasant way to die, and one he likely deeply regretted partway through.

I'm not familiar with the case -- was it really murder, or would it have been called manslaughter had he not been famous?
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-04-19 12:41  

#2  Well he served out his sentence and been paroled.

win-win.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-04-19 11:04  

#1  On the bright side, with credit for time served, his 'life sentence' was reduced just over two years and Massachusetts tax payers finally catch a break.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-04-19 08:59  

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