STORRS, Conn. — The older brother of late New England Patriots tight finish Aaron Hernandez is behind bars after a lady near him informed police she was fearful he was planning a college capturing.
Dennis Hernandez, a former soccer participant at UConn, was shocked with a stun gun and arrested by police July 18 after he threatened to kill officers who had gone to his residence in Bristol, Connecticut, then emerged from the home yelling “shoot me, shoot me,” based on police.
On the best way to the hospital, Hernandez, who glided by D.J. whereas enjoying quarterback and vast receiver for the Huskies within the mid-2000s, mentioned he deliberate to kill anybody who had profited off his youthful brother, police mentioned in an arrest report.
Bristol cops went to Hernandez’s residence after talking with two ladies about what they described as his deteriorating psychological well being.
Hernandez, 37, was initially arrested in March after police say he threw a bag containing a brick and a word over a fence and onto ESPN’s property in Bristol earlier than leaving.
Hernandez didn’t seem in courtroom as scheduled on July 7. One of many ladies informed police that Hernandez informed her he had pushed as an alternative on that day to UConn’s campus in Storrs and Brown College’s campus in Windfall, Rhode Island, to “map the colleges out.” The lady, whose title is redacted from the police report, informed police she surmised Hernandez was planning a college capturing.
UConn police confirmed {that a} car linked to Hernandez was on campus that day.
The opposite lady informed police that in rambling about that incident to her, Hernandez mentioned he “has a bullet for everybody,” based on the arrest report.
Hernandez additionally posted threats on social media towards a type of ladies and different folks, police mentioned. A kind of learn partly, “Will I kill? Completely.” In a textual content message to one of many ladies on July 7, Hernandez wrote about being offended at UConn coaches and college officers, and warned he was “taking down all the pieces.”
He mentioned he has been dying for years, “and now it is different folks’s flip.”
“Not all shootings are dangerous I am realizing,” he wrote.
A cellphone message searching for remark was left on the public defender’s workplace, which is representing Hernandez within the case. Hernandez grew up in Bristol and not too long ago had lived in Florida.
UConn mentioned in an announcement that it decided on the time that there was “no recognized imminent menace” to the varsity and that Hernandez was taken into custody shortly after UConn realized of the incident. Brown, the place Hernandez served as quarterbacks coach in the course of the 2010-11 season, mentioned in an announcement that its investigation indicated Hernandez had not returned to campus in latest weeks.
Hernandez is due again in courtroom on Aug. 1 on costs together with threatening, breach of peace and failure to seem in courtroom. He’s being held in lieu of $250,000 bail.
Aaron Hernandez killed himself in 2017 whereas serving a homicide sentence.
