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Hernandez was investigated in connection with a double murder that took place on July 16, 2012, in Boston's South End.[39] Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Teixeira Furtado, 28, both immigrants from the Canary Islands who lived in Dorchester, were killed by gunshots fired into their vehicle.[40] On May 15, 2014, Hernandez was indicted on murder charges for the killings of de Abreu and Furtado,[41] with additional charges of armed assault and attempted murder associated with shots fired at the surviving occupants in the vehicle.[42] The trial began March 1, 2017.[43] The evidence was strongly based on testimony by a man who was a known drug dealer. On April 14, 2017, Hernandez was acquitted of the murders and most of the other charges. He was found guilty of illegal possession of a handgun.
On April 19, 2017, at 3:05 a.m. EDT, five days after Hernandez was acquitted of the 2012 Boston double homicide, correction officers found Hernandez hanging by his bedsheets from his window in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. He was transported to UMass Memorial Hospital-Leominster, where he was pronounced dead at 4:07 a.m.[9][92][93][10] State Department of Correction spokesman Christopher Fallon first said no suicide note was found in Hernandez's single-occupant cell. On April 20, 2017, investigators reported that three handwritten notes were next to a Bible opened to John 3:16 and "John 3:16" was written on his forehead in ink.[94] The notes reportedly said he was entering the "timeless realm" and would see his family in heaven, that he loved his family, and that they should not shed a tear.[95] Shampoo was found covering the floor, cardboard was under the cell door to make it difficult for someone to enter, and there were drawings in blood on the walls showing an unfinished pyramid and the all-seeing eye of God, with the word Illuminati written in capital letters underneath.[96]
Prison officials had not observed any signs that Hernandez was at risk for suicide, so he was not put on around-the-clock watch.[97] Upon completion of the autopsy by the medical examiner, the death was officially ruled a suicide. At the request of his family, Hernandez's brain was released to Boston University to be studied for signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative disease found in people who have had a severe blow or repeated blows to the head, including football players who suffer concussions.[98] His lawyer-agent, Jose Baez, disputed any claim of suicide and initiated his own investigation of the death.