Aaron Hernandez was 27 years old when he fatally hanged himself in prison in April 2017, but nobody could understand why he would do so after coming off a huge legal victory and being found not guilty in a double homicide.
Those questions surrounding his death were answered Boston University neuropathologist Dr. Ann McKee shared the findings from Hernandez’s brain autopsy months later and revealed he had stage 3 CTE; stage 4 is the most severe.
“This is the first case that we’ve seen that kind of damage in such a young individual,” she said, adding that the type of brain damage observed is usually seen in someone 20 years older.
You wouldn’t really know that fact watching the new Netflix doc, “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,” which focused heavily on Aaron allegedly being gay, with the documentary speaking to his old high school quarterback, Dennis SanSoucie, who claimed he and Aaron were an item.
Jose Baez called bullcrap on the whole thing.
Via TMZ:
“Jose Baez — who repped Aaron and helped him beat a double murder case — tells TMZ … the new documentary about his client implies Aaron was in the closet, and might have even taken his life because of that alleged secret.
That’s just not the case, though, according to Baez … who says Aaron’s death was triggered by advanced CTE — a brain disease the tight end had developed since his youth. Baez insists Aaron’s sexual orientation played ZERO part in his fate.”
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SanSoucie was the only person who appeared on camera making the gay allegation.
Baez blasted the entire Netflix production on Instagram as well.
