Aaron Hernandez’s brother now going through federal fees over alleged threatening messages

HARTFORD, Conn. — The troubled brother of the late NFL participant Aaron Hernandez was charged Friday, now in federal courtroom, with new counts of threatening and stalking after authorities say he threatened to shoot up the College of Connecticut and kill three folks in one other state.

Dennis Hernandez was ordered to be held in custody after his look within the courtroom in Hartford. A message in search of remark was despatched Friday night time to his lawyer.

The brand new fees got here days after it emerged that Hernandez was arrested July 18 on state fees after police stated he threatened to kill officers after which urged them to shoot him at his dwelling in Bristol. Officers had gone there after two folks near him raised considerations about his psychological well being, police stated.

The arrest report stated the 37-year-old had despatched threatening messages, together with ones about finishing up a taking pictures at UConn. He was a Huskies quarterback and large receiver who glided by DJ Hernandez within the mid-2000s.

Court docket filings within the new federal case embody the identical messages. Some say the author is struggling financially, is annoyed at seeing different folks get employed as coaches, feels owed by UConn, is planning on “taking down all the pieces” and would not care “who will get caught within the crossfire.”

“I’ve died for years now and now its others peoples flip,” learn a July 7 message despatched to a girl in Hernandez’s life. It adopted a message the day earlier than that warned: “UConn’s gonna see how correct I’m too with my targets.”

Hernandez advised one other individual that he drove July 7 to UConn’s campus in Storrs and to Brown College, in Windfall, Rhode Island, the place he coached quarterbacks through the 2010-11 season, based on courtroom papers.

He had been due in state courtroom that day on one other case stemming from allegations that he threw a bag containing a brick and a word over a fence and onto ESPN’s property in Bristol.

UConn police confirmed {that a} car linked to Hernandez was on campus that day. Brown has stated that its investigation did not point out Hernandez had been on campus in latest weeks.

Hernandez is due again in state courtroom Tuesday and in federal courtroom Aug. 11.

His youthful brother, former New England Patriots tight finish Aaron Hernandez, killed himself in 2017 whereas serving a homicide sentence.