Less than a week after he was acquitted in a double-homicide trial in Boston, former NFL player Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell. According to a statement from the Massachusetts Department of Correction, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center staff found Hernandez hanging early this morning. He was transported to UMass Memorial in Leominster where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at 4:07 AM.
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