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Chandler Jones was arrested in Las Vegas on Friday morning, a day after the Raiders star’s bizarre social media allegations and behavior. Jones was booked into Clark County Detention Center on charges of violating a domestic violence protective order. On Thursday, the Super Bowl champion took to social media, crying in a livestream and baselessly implicating Raiders coach Josh McDaniels — the former Patriots offensive coordinator — in the death of Jones’ ex-New England teammate Aaron Hernandez. Hernandez took his own life in prison on Apr. 19, 2017. The accusation came after he tweeted he was forced into a mental...

Ex-NFL player Phillip Adams (pictured in 2011, four years before he retired) killed six people and then himself in April this year in an as-yet unexplained rampage Ex NFL player Phillip Adams had 'unusually severe' levels of CTE when he killed six people in April before turning the gun on himself, pathologists revealed on Tuesday as they shamed the NFL for allegedly ignoring his pleas for help. Adams, 32, played 78 NFL games for six different teams across six seasons before retiring in 2015. In April, he shot and killed Dr. Robert Lesslie, his wife Barbara, two of their grandchildren...

When attorney Jose Baez first met Aaron Hernandez in 2016, the former NFL star was already serving life in prison. The then-26-year-old had been arrested for the murder of Odin Lloyd, an acquaintance, in 2013, after three seasons with the New England Patriots. Now, he needed a lawyer for another indictment, involving an earlier double-homicide. Baez took the case, and grew close with the athlete. He helped Hernandez win an acquittal on April 14, 2017, but days later, on April 19, the 27-year-old hanged himself in his cell. A brain scan revealed that the former tight-end had suffered severe brain...

WORCESTER, Mass. — The Worcester County district attorney’s office on Friday released a new round of documents from the investigation of Aaron Hernandez's suicide in response to public records requests filed by 5 Investigates. The documents include the State Police death report from Hernandez’s suicide, his “classification report” kept by prison officials and interviews with more than a dozen correction officers who assisted in treating or transporting Hernandez on April 19. The classification report lists Hernandez as a “verified member” of the Bloods street gang. The report also documents a number of nicknames for Hernandez, including Boom, AA, Big Nose,...

Aaron Hernandez may have murdered Odin Lloyd to keep his own bisexuality a secret, according a report Friday that also said one of his suicide notes was addressed to a gay jailhouse lover. “One of the notes left by Hernandez was to his prison boyfriend, who is now on 24/7 suicide watch, multiple law enforcement sources confirm,” Newsweek reported. Hernandez’s sexuality had also played a role in the murder for which the disgraced Patriot tight end was serving life without parole in the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center, the report said. Hernandez may have fatally shot his old pal, Odin Lloyd,...

Now that Aaron Hernandez may have his conviction posthumously vacated — under an obscure Massachusetts legal doctrine — the Patriots could owe him money, a lawyer said Thursday. The Pats may actually be contractually obligated to pay Hernandez’s estate a $3.5 million bonus that was stopped hours after his murder arrest in 2013, attorney William Kennedy told the CBS affiliate in Boston. Kennedy represents the families of Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu. Hernandez was acquitted in their shooting murders last week — only to commit suicide Wednesday in the Massachusetts prison cell where he was serving life without parole...

Disgraced NFL star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez died Wednesday “an innocent man” — according to a little-known legal doctrine in Massachusetts that traces its origins to English common law, one outside expert tells PEOPLE. Martin Healy, the chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Bar Association, explains that the state observes abatement ab initio, which in criminal proceedings is applied if a defendant dies before all of their appeals have been resolved. Under abatement ab initio (the latter phrase meaning “from the beginning”), the defendant’s case returns to its initial phase and the slate is wiped clean. “It’s as if...

More details are emerging regarding the death of former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, and they’re troubling. Via WBZ-TV, the phrase “John 3:16” was written on Hernandez’s forehead, and red marker was on his hands and feet. “John 3:16” is a popular Biblical verse, the 16th verse of the third chapter of the Gospel According to John: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Aaron Hernandez’s murder conviction is expected to be dismissed posthumously because of a legal rule called “abatement.” That would mean, legally speaking, Aaron Hernandez died an innocent man. Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell and was found dead early Wednesday morning, the Massachusetts Department of Correction said. Hernandez had been serving a sentence of life in prison without parole after being convicted of the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.

FULL TITLE: Disgraced Patriots star and convicted killer Aaron Hernandez, 27, hangs himself in prison on the day his former teammates are due at the White House to celebrate their historic Super Bowl win Disgraced NFL star Aaron Hernandez has committed suicide just days after he was acquitted of a 2012 double murder, and on the same day that his former teammates are scheduled to be honored at the White House for their recent Super Bowl win. The convicted killer's death is a final slap to the team that gave him so much, making him a millionaire and one of...

Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez was discovered hanged in his cell by a corrections officer Tuesday night, according to a statement from the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Hernandez's body was found at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley Massachusetts at approximately 3:05 a.m. Hernandez hanged himself with a bed sheet attached to his cell window. He had also attempted to block the door from the inside by jamming the door with various items. He was pronounced dead at 4:07 a.m. by a physician at the hospital.

Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who was serving a life sentence for murder without the possibility of parole, hanged himself in himself in his prison cell, Massachusetts Department of Corrections officials say. Officers at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., found Hernandez, 27, hanging from a bedsheet at about 3:05 a.m. Wednesday. They attempted lifesaving techniques and he was taken to UMass Memorial Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster, where he was pronounced dead.

<p>Just came across on Fox Business. Aaron Hernandez is dead! Hung himself with his bed sheet in his cell.</p>

BOSTON (WHDH) - After six days of deliberations, the jury in the double-murder trial of Aaron Hernandez found him not guilty for the 2012 murders of two men in Boston’s South End. The former New England Patriots tight end was on trial for the killings of Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu after one of them accidentally spilled a drink on him at the Cure Lounge. Throughout the trial, his lawyers argued that it was Hernandez’s friend, Alexander Bradley, who shot the men in a drug deal while parked at a stop light.

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of first-degree murder. He has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A Massachusetts jury on Wednesday found Hernandez killed Odin Lloyd on June 17, 2013. Lloyd was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee. He was found shot six times in an industrial park less than a mile from Hernandez's home. At the time, Hernandez had a $40 million contract with the Patriots. Hernandez's lawyer acknowledged during closing arguments that he was there when Lloyd was killed. But he pinned...

Ruling to throw out texts damages case against Aaron Hernandez In a surprising and significant decision, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh ruled on Friday that text messages sent by Odin Lloyd prior to his murder will be inadmissible in the upcoming trial of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez. Garsh’s ruling eliminates a critical piece of evidence against Hernandez and increases the stunning possibility of Hernandez being found not guilty. Jury selection in Hernandez’s trial is scheduled to begin on January 9, 2015.

...Prosecutor Patrick Haggan said that in the months leading up to the shooting, Hernandez had become increasingly convinced that people “had been testing, trying or otherwise disrespecting him when he frequented nightclubs in the area.” Haggan told the court Hernandez and a friend drove from Connecticut to Boston that night to go to a nightclub called Cure. They were standing at the edge of the dance floor when de Abreu accidentally bumped into Hernandez, smiled at him and did not apologize, according to prosecutors. Haggan said Hernandez became agitated and told his friend that de Abreu had deliberately bumped him,...

The late Jennifer Martel didn’t need a restraining order Thursday night, she needed a gun. This is what happens when the population is disarmed. They can’t fight back. Kristina Hill and Benjamin Ray courageously risked their lives to save their defenseless neighbor, but what could they do with their bare hands against this monster? They needed a gun, too. The National Rifle Association has a host of slogans that drive moonbats crazy, probably because most of them are indisputably true. This is one of them: “When seconds count, police are minutes away.” Another one is, “I’d rather be judged by...

Sources told Eyewitness News that Aaron Hernandez's uncle was killed after a Moped crash in Bristol early Saturday morning. Officers were called to the intersection of Central Street and Church Avenue around 1 a.m. where they found a man, who was later identified as 49-year-old Robert Valentine of Bristol, suffering from a life-threatening head injury. Valentine was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. During their investigation, police determined that Valentine struck a curb while operating a moped and was thrown from the vehicle into a private driveway where he struck another curb. According to police, Valentine was not wearing...

New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez might be the worst of this bunch but he’s not the first or the last NFL player arrested since the lights went out after the February 8th Super Bowl. Here’s the list so far: Michael Boley, New York Giants (Feb. 8): Child abuse in Alabama. Da’Quan Bowers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Feb. 18): possession of firearm in...