“They're taking him! They're taking him!” (LeBrecht) DJ Hernandez returns to his mother's home in Bristol, Connecticut to find his mother crying hysterically on the couch, watching the TV as her son, DJ's brother Aaron, is arrested by police. He is wearing a plain white T-shirt with red gym shorts, with his hands cuffed firmly behind his back. Two officers follow him closely, in case he suddenly decides to use his four point six-four forty yard dash speed to try and escape, but that is not the case today. Officers placed Hernandez in the back of a police car and drive away.
Aaron Hernandez grew up in the town of Bristol Connecticut. His family was seen in the community as the gold standard, as his father, Dennis, was adored, and always helpful
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and kind. Aaron looked to his father as a role model, taking his advice and simply having him as a guiding hand. He and Aaron's brother, DJ, were the ones who helped guide him through high school as a top football recruit. So when Dennis died after a routine hernia surgery due to infection, Aaron's life slowly began to spiral out of control. He began to hang out with supposed gang members, and supposedly started using drugs, such as marijuana Aaron was lost in his own head it seemed, and it would take some work to fix it. At his father's funeral, he shed no tears, which in the eyes of his brother, was odd. Maybe the shock of his father's death had fried his emotions. Or maybe Aaron had just snapped, and his life of NFL riches and poor decisions had just begun. It all began when Aaron made the decision to go to college at Florida and play for the Gators instead of following DJ to Uconn.
At Florida, Aaron slowly began to misbehave, beginning with a bar fight in 2007, his Freshman year at Florida, where he hit a bar manager in the ear because of a dispute over an unpaid bar tab. The manager's eardrum was ruptured due to the hit, but Florida personnel managed to convince the man not to press charges. Then there was Aaron's failed drug test. (Though it is disputed that he failed many more than one.) During the combine, NFL teams were very nervous about Aaron to say the least, and some took him off of their draft boards entirely. But the incident that most scared NFL teams, Gators coaches, and Aaron's friends and family, was his possible involvement in a deadly drive by shooting outside a Florida nightclub during his Freshman year with the Gators in 2007. Aaron, Mike and Maurkice Pouncey, Chris Harris, and Reggie Nelson were all partying at a nightclub called the Venue. The Gators had lost to the Auburn Tigers 20-17 that day, and Aaron had gone there with some friends to unwind. Three other friends were also in the club, unaware of what their night would hold. There names were Corey Smith (Nicknamed Squirt), Randall Cason, and Justin Glass. Squirt had a good job, was raising two kids, and he drove a white Crown Vic. He had actually been trying to keep Glass from being exposed to negative influences in his life, although Cason was a …show more content…
negative influence on him. Supposedly, everything began a week before the shooting, when Cason's brother got into an altercation at the Venue with several Florida football players. Now, Cason found himself in almost the same situation as his brother the week before. An argument ensued, and a UF football player reached out to rip a chain off of Cason's neck, but it was too thick to break.When Reggie Nelson arrived at the club, however, he claims Aaron told him a chain had been snatched off of one of the Pouncey twins necks. Also, according to the bouncer, Antwuan Hamm, it was Justin Glass, not Randall Cason, who was involved in the altercation with the football players. He recalls one of the twins approaching Glass and saying, “I want my mother####ing chain.” “What chain?” Glass had replied. “I ain't got no damn chain.” (Patterson) After this, club officials escorted both of the Pouncey twins and Glass out of the club. When outside, the Pouncey twins said that the “black man” outside had tauntingly tugged at his shirt, as if to indicate that he had a gun in his waistband. In order to defuse the tense situation, Nelson, who knew Cason, stepped in and told him that the players wanted no trouble. At that, the two parties went there separate ways, and it appeared that the conflict had been resolved. The Crown Vic slowly worked its way through University Avenue. Glass was driving, with Squirt in the front passenger seat and Cason in the back. Glass and Cason were armed, with Squirt being the only unarmed man in the vehicle. While stopped at a red light, Cason noticed Reggie Nelson's Tahoe a few cars behind them. Cason then made his friends aware that they were being followed. But with a red light and traffic still tight, there was nothing they could do. Then, Cason noticed two men on the sidewalk walking towards their vehicle. He recognized them as Nelson and the Freshman: Aaron Hernandez. Cason then watched as Hernandez supposedly walked up to the open window, looked inside, raised his gun, and opened fire. Squirt was hit in the head, and Glass in the arm. Hernandez then ran away through a Holiday Inn parking lot towards a nearby Mcdonald's. It appeared to teams that if they could control Aaron's drug problem, they could make a steal in the draft. Sadly, that was far from true. In Aaron's rookie season, he was everything the Patriots thought he would be.
Although he didn't carve out a starting role on the team until nearly half way through the season, he was an integral part of the Patriots offense. He put up five hundred and sixty-three receiving yards, averaging twelve-point-five yards per catch. The next year, Aaron became an even bigger part of the Patriots offense, recording nine hundred and ten receiving yards with seventy-nine receptions, averaging eleven-point-five yards per catch. He was rewarded with a five year contract extension for forty million dollars, with twelve-point-five million guaranteed at signing after the two thousand and eleven season. At the time, his signing bonus was the highest ever for a tight end. At this point the Patriots, along with the entire league, believed they had made a massive steal by drafting Aaron in the fourth round in two thousand and ten. He had been everything teams had expected him to be, excluding, of course, the behavior they believed would follow Aaron to the pros. He had been the opposite of a distraction actually. Thus far into Aaron's career, he had been what some would call a model citizen. When Aaron signed his contract, it appeared Aaron had his life in order, and that he was on his way to fulfilling all of his potential, and enjoying a long and productive career.
In 2011, Aaron and his wife, Shayanna, were engaged. Soon after, Aaron's daughter, named Avielle Janelle, was born. The next day
at practice, Aaron wore his white game uniform. When questioned as to why, Aaron responded, “I'm engaged now. I have a baby. It's just going to make me think a lot differently and doing things the right way. Now, another one is going to be looking up to me. I can't just be young and reckless Aaron no more. I'm going to try to do the right things, become a good father, and let Arielle be raised like I was.” (Patterson) On June 13, 2017, Aaron Hernandez took Odin Lloyd to a desolate place mere miles from his Massachusetts home and shot him dead. He then left, leaving the body for a casual passerby to find. Aaron could have committed this crime anywhere else and he could have gotten away with it. But he chose to do it close to home, and the murder of Odin Lloyd was going to be avenged. Aaron was taken into custody on June 26, 2013, being charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd. An extensive legal battle followed with Hernandez also being charged with a deadly nightclub shooting that had happened a year before, but was found innocent. In the case of Lloyd, he was prepared to fight for his freedom. He had been talking to fellow prisoners about possibly playing football again once his name was cleared of any wrongdoing. But then, on April nineteenth, two thousand and seventeen, Hernandez was reportedly found unresponsive in his prison cell, having hung himself with a bedsheet. It was a shock to all close to him, as many described him as happy and energetic in the days leading up to his death. It was after this that Aaron's brain was examined, and it was discovered that he had the worst case of CTE ever seen in a player his age. Cases of CTE this severe had only been seen in NFL players ages 60 and older. After this discovery, it became the obvious answer as to Aaron's paranoia, anger, and mood swings. All examples are side effects of CTE. Hernandez exhibited all of these side effects. It is widely believed that Hernandez mental health greatly contributed to his actions against Odin Lloyd, and countless other people more than likely. Currently, Hernandez family is suing the NFL and the Patriots franchise for not doing enough to protect Aaron and inform him of the dangers of playing NFL football. They are seeking damages for Aaron's daughter, stating their reasoning as her father was taken from her due to the negligence of the NFL informing him of the possibility of acquiring a head injury. Aaron Hernandez wasted the opportunity of a lifetime to play in the NFL. He made one bad decision after another, until he had completely ruined his life, and the lives of countless others. Though there is no excuse for his actions, part of it may actually be credited to the brain injuries he suffered playing football. The world will never truly know what caused Aaron to commit his countless crimes, but he more than likely did commit them, and he deserved his fate.
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