{"id":119745,"date":"2017-04-13T15:31:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T20:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119745"},"modified":"2017-04-19T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:03:43","slug":"ex-nfl-star-hernandez-acquitted-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119745","title":{"rendered":"Ex NFL star, Hernandez, acquitted, murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-119746\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/HernandezAaron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"258\" \/>BOSTON (AP) The relatives of two men prosecutors say were killed by ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez have cried out loud and been helped from a courtroom following Hernandez&#8217;s acquittal.<\/p>\n<p>The former New England Patriots tight end was acquitted of murder and other charges in the 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado but was convicted of a gun possession charge.<\/p>\n<p>The two men&#8217;s relatives sobbed audibly and uncontrollably in court Friday. Other family members had to help them out of the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Hernandez opened fire on the men&#8217;s car because he felt disrespected when one of them bumped into him and spilled his drink at a Boston nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez denied killing the men.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s already serving life in prison in the 2013 death of a man who was dating his fiancee&#8217;s sister.<br \/>\nHernandez&#8217;s fiancee,Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez says she&#8217;s &#8220;very happy&#8221; about his acquittal on charges he killed two men after they left a Boston nightclub.<br \/>\nHernandez wept quietly in court after the jury announcement. His fiancee also sobbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) The relatives of two men prosecutors say were killed by ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez have cried out loud and been helped from a courtroom following Hernandez&#8217;s acquittal. The former New England Patriots tight end was acquitted of murder and other charges in the 2012 killings of Daniel de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119748,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119745\/revisions\/119748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}