{"id":119927,"date":"2017-04-19T06:49:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T11:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119927"},"modified":"2017-04-19T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:04:49","slug":"hernandez-found-dead-in-jail-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119927","title":{"rendered":"Hernandez found dead in jail cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119747\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Aaron-Hernandez@-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Aaron-Hernandez@-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Aaron-Hernandez@-431x269.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Aaron-Hernandez@-280x175.jpg 280w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Aaron-Hernandez@.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>MILFORD, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Massachusetts prison officials say former NFL star Aaron Hernandez has hanged himself in his cell and pronounced dead at a hospital. He was 27.<\/p>\n<p>An official with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections says Hernandez was found hanged in his cell just after 3 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities tried to revive the former New England Patriots tight end, and he was pronounced dead at UMass Memorial &#8211; HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster at 4:07 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Prison officials say the Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population housing unit at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts They say he hanged himself using a bed sheet that he attached to a cell window.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Hernandez tried to block the cell door from the inside by jamming the door with various items.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, was acquitted Friday in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a drink spilled at a nightclub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILFORD, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Massachusetts prison officials say former NFL star Aaron Hernandez has hanged himself in his cell and pronounced dead at a hospital. He was 27. An official with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections says Hernandez was found hanged in his cell just after 3 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities [&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-119927","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\/119927","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=119927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119928,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119927\/revisions\/119928"}],"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=119927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}