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Odin Leonardo John Lloyd (November 14, 1985 – June 17, 2013) was a semi-professional American football player in the New England Football League who was murdered by Aaron Hernandez, a former tight end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League, in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, on June 17, 2013.
Aaron Josef Hernandez [a] (November 6, 1989 – April 19, 2017) was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played three seasons with the New England Patriots until his arrest and conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
After his murder conviction, Hernandez was moved to Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison where inmates spend upwards of 20 hours a day in their cells. He was apparently ...
Aaron Hernandez in 2009 when he played for Florida. Dave Martin / Associated Press In 2015, Hernandez during jury deliberation at his murder trial. AP Pool
In April 2015, Hernandez was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Lloyd and sentenced to life in prison without parole. His trial for the double murder of Abreu and Furtado did not begin ...
In 2010, 20-year-old Hernandez is drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round, despite the reputation he earned at Florida. Friends recall Hernandez exhibiting increasing paranoia. Meanwhile, prosecutors try Hernandez for Lloyd's murder in 2013 while investigating his role in the 2012 double homicide that baffled police.
Days after being acquitted in a second trial on charges of shooting two men in a car near a Boston nightclub, Hernandez died by suicide inside a Massachusetts maximum security prison in 2017.
Hernandez died in the hospital three days later from his injuries. [ 1 ] Terry Thompson was convicted of murder in 2018 and sentenced to 25 years in prison; [ 2 ] charges against Chauna Thompson were dropped in 2019.