Ex-NFL star Hernandez commits suicide in jail: officials
19 April 2017 |
12:39 pm
Former U.S. football star Aaron Hernandez was found dead inside his prison cell in an apparent suicide on Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts state Department of Corrections.
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