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Aaron Hernandez Nationality - Today, Aaron Hernandez was officially charged with murder in addition to five other weapon-related counts. Technically Aaron Hernandez’s race is Hispanic. When Aaron Hernandez was a child in this faded factory town, his mother, Terri, twice turned to the courts for bankruptcy protection.
Police would later seize reams of evidence from the home.
Hernandez and his lawyers have proclaimed his innocence. Police wiretaps allegedly intercepted Terri Hernandez relaying betting lines for games involving many sports teams, including the New England Patriots. The outcome of Terri Hernandez’s case — she faced several charges, including professional gambling — is not available under Connecticut law.
Terri Hernandez has refused interview requests, and her former lawyer, a longtime family friend, declined to comment.
By the accounts of friends and acquaintances, Aaron Hernandez’s father loomed largest in his life, and his death in 2006 from complications after routine hernia surgery was a turning point.
For more than 30 years, the elder Hernandez was known on the streets of Bristol as The King.
The son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Dennis Hernandez reigned as street royalty from his days as a three-sport star at Bristol Central High School and a running back at the University of Connecticut through his career as a school custodian.
Hernandez was, by his own account, unsure where to turn.
A high school picture has since surfaced of Hernandez purportedly flashing the sign of the Bloods street gang while dressed in red, the gang’s color. Bristol school officials have declined interviews since his arrest, but his high school football coach, Doug Pina, told the Hartford Courant in 2010, “Personally, I’ve always had concerns.’’
It was no secret Hernandez began running with some unsavory characters after his father died and continued some of those associations after he left Bristol.
Nowhere was the criminal element in Hernandez’s life more evident than at a powder-blue Cape house at 114 Lake Ave. in Bristol, across from a field where he once played football. The home is owned by Hernandez’s uncle.
The house became a way station for Hernandez’s inner circle, including Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, who allegedly accompanied him when Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player from Dorchester and Hernandez’s one-time friend, was killed near Hernandez’s home in North Attleborough.
Singleton was married to Tanya Cummings-Singleton, Hernandez’s cousin. She was jailed Aug. 1 in Boston for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Hernandez.
Police had previously seized Cummings-Singleton’s cellphone and credit cards during a court appearance by Wallace, Hernandez’s alleged “right-hand man.’’ A police affidavit alleges she bought Wallace a bus ticket to Florida after Lloyd’s slaying.
Yet Cummings-Singleton’s role in the Hernandez family history runs deeper than her relationship with Wallace. In 2005, she married Jeffrey Cummings, an ex-convict who would become Hernandez’s stepfather. Cummings then married Hernandez’s mother on a trip to Las Vegas in 2009. “Of course everyone knew about [Hernandez’s] troubled past,” one of his former Florida teammates said. Hernandez also tested positive for marijuana, triggering a one-game suspension. A month before Hernandez reported to his first Patriots training camp in 2010, his stepfather knifed his mother. Terri Hernandez suffered lacerations to her right cheek, right shoulder, and left wrist.
During the same period, several of Hernandez’s other Bristol acquaintances landed in jail.
Police suspect Hernandez and the victims clashed at the nightspot Cure before the men were shot by a suspect in a silver SUV. The vehicle at 114 Lake Ave. registered in Hernandez’s name.
Hernandez vowed afterward that his life as “the young and reckless Aaron’’ was behind him.
The driver was Alexander Bradley, an ex-convict from Bristol who has described himself as Hernandez’s former paid assistant.
Fifteen days later, Hernandez allegedly shot Bradley in the face in Florida, according to Bradley’s civil suit against him. Hernandez next surfaced in California, where he was scheduled to work out with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. On March 25, Hernandez had been drinking and was arguing with Jenkins when he cut his wrist punching a window, a police report stated. Jenkins called 911 for an ambulance, saying Hernandez was “losing a lot of blood.’’
Again, Hernandez and Jenkins were arguing. Police took no action after restoring calm.
Wallace was in Bristol on June 16, when Hernandez — before taking Jenkins on a date — tapped out a Twitter message: “happy father’s day to all the great dads out there.’’
Before the date ended, prosecutors say, Hernandez set in motion a plan to kill Lloyd. Father’s Day had ended by the time Hernandez, Wallace, and Ortiz picked up Lloyd in Dorchester and drove to an industrial park in North Attleborough. Several minutes later, prosecutors allege, a surveillance camera captured an image of Hernandez at his home carrying a handgun.
Wallace and Ortiz returned to Lake Avenue before they were arrested. Hernandez also was arrested, at his home, before police began investigating an alleged effort to cover up the crime.
On Tuesday, police suspended an exhaustive search of Pine Lake, not far from 114 Lake Ave., without locating the weapon.
