FILE - In this Friday, April 14, 2017, file photo, Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez turns to look toward his fiancee Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez as he reacts to his double murder acquittal at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Hernandez’s family is planning a private funeral for the former NFL star in his hometown in Bristol, Conn. A spokeswoman for the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association said Saturday, April 22, that the service is set for Monday, April 24. The former New England Patriots tight end was found hanged in his cell in a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts early Wednesday, April 19. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, Pool, File)
April 23, 2017 - 10:45 PM
BRISTOL, Conn. - Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez's Connecticut hometown is preparing to say farewell to him.
A private funeral service is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday for the former New England Patriots tight end, who was found hanged in his cell in a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts last week. Hernandez was serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder and had just been acquitted of a 2012 double murder. His death has been ruled a suicide.
Services will be at a funeral home in Bristol. The burial will be private at an undisclosed location.
Hernandez's family in a statement Saturday asked for privacy as they mourn.
Scientists at Boston University are studying Hernandez's brain for any signs of repeated trauma suffered during his years of playing football.
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