Aaron Hernandez requested new cellmates several times before suicide
Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez requested new cellmates in prison several times before he committed suicide, including a request to be with one cellmate he described as “my heart,” according to letters he wrote to prison staff — first obtained by the Boston Globe and authenticated by state officials.
Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, was assigned to G2 housing in the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, and pleaded on several occasions to be transferred to the P2 cell. He described P2 as where he’d “end up in the long run.”
All inmates names were redacted from the obtained letters so it was unclear who Hernandez was requesting as cellmates.
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In one of the letters, dated June 12, 2015, Hernandez wrote, “So, please make this happen and I even prefer to move in with (name redacted); me and him are very close and have been since the streets and that’s FACT, not bull (expletive). He’s my heart and like a real brother to me that’s why I want and am requesting to go upstairs and live with him.
“I am requesting to (bunk up) with my brother (redacted), we both want to.”
Hernandez’s fiancé, Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, addressed on the Dr. Phil show rumors that Hernandez was gay and had a lover in prison.
“The Aaron that I know, no. I got no indication that he was such,” she said. “He was very much a man to me. It’s hurtful. Whether it’s true or not, it’s not something I saw.”
The lawyer of Kyle Kennedy, another prisoner, said that Hernadez had written Kennedy one of the three suicide letters. Jenkins-Hernandez disputed that claim. She said there were three letters: one addressed to their daughter, another to her and one to Hernandez's lawyer.
