2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The cloudy skies of Bristol, Connecticut, served as the background for the farewell that his family gave Monday to Aaron Hernández, the former New England Patriots player who almost a week ago appeared lifeless and hanging from a sheet in his cell. a Massachusetts prison.
According to ABC, the player's fiancée Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, 27, and her daughter, Avielle Janelle Hernández, 4, were present at the funeral held at the O'Brien Funeral Home and which was private.
The service, People reports, started at 1:00 p.m. local time.
One of the images of the funeral published by the AP agency shows DJ Hernández, brother of the deceased 27-year-old player, outside the funeral home with his face disjointed.
According to the authorities, Hernández hanged himself in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski prison, considered one of the safest and most sophisticated in the country, where he was serving a life sentence for murder.
When found, the athlete had a passage from the Bible written on his forehead. Along with his body were also found three suicide notes, two private and one public.
Hernández's family sent a statement asking for support during these hard times. "The family of Aarón Hernández wants to thank them for their heartfelt expressions of condolences," said spokeswoman for the Connecticut Association of Funeral Directors Laura Soll. "We want to say goodbye to Aaron in private and we want to thank everyone in advance for giving us enough privacy in this difficult time."
The former New England Patriots star was convicted in 2015 of the murder of Odin Lloyd, 27. The victim had a relationship with Hernandez's fiancée's sister and was a semi-professional football player in the Boston Bandits.
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