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An Honored Man’s Struggle Kaitlynd Gardner An Honored Man’s Struggled Even though you may look at a celebrity and think they live a life of luxury, a lot of them go through things you'd never believe, things you have never seen, experience eventful happenings that change their whole life. On November 6th, 1989, Aaron Hernandez, tight end for the New England Patriots, was born. Although he lived in luxury, Hernandez’s life was a struggle before he went bigshot at the University of Florida. His mother, turned to the courts for bankruptcy protection when he was a child. When Hernandez was in sixth grade, Terri, his mother, began taking bets for an illegal gambling organization. The Police later seized reams of evidence from the home. He did not know about his mother's doings, at least it is hard to say what he did and did not know at that time. Terri was also married to an ex-convict who was previously married to his cousin. Hernandez was no stranger to the streets as a teenager and he definitely knew his way around Bristol, even though he was an honor student. He was involved in a volatile underworld of gangs, guns, drugs and violence. He has been linked, by prosecutors and a civil lawsuit, to a violent series of assaults, shootings, and three killings. For 30 years, Aaron Hernandez was known on the streets of Bristol as The King. …show more content…

The victims who were shot and killed, were Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado, and it was told by news reports that the two were spotted at the same Boston Nightclub as Hernandez was the nights of the murders. A grand jury then charged Hernandez with two counts of first-degree murder. He was also charge with assault and weapons in connection to the case. Hernandez’s lawyers then released a statement, “claiming that the former athlete was “innocent of the charges” and looked “forward to his day in court””.

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