Total Chaos: Inside The Wild Prison Riot Before Aaron Hernandez's Death
May 10 2017, Published 1:06 p.m. ET
New photos show the aftermath of inmates rioting in the weeks before Aaron Hernandez's shocking suicide — see them here.
These shocking photos show the aftermath of a wild riot at the prison where former NFL star Aaron Hernandez committed suicide last month.
Prisoners trashed objects, including sprinklers and a computer, and made weapons by ripping off table legs in a housing unit at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts.
The drama unfolded earlier this year on January 9 after a fight between two gang members descended into a three-hour-long riot involving 46 prisoners.
Corrections officers had to call in a special operations unit, which used pepper spray on the marauding felons, who were searched and then returned to their cells.
Remarkably no injuries were reported.
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Hernandez, 27, was found dead on April 19 after hanging himself with a bed sheet tied to his cell window.
Authorities attempted to revive the athlete, but he was later pronounced dead by 4:07 a.m at UMass Memorial Hospital in Leominster.
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