Aaron Hernandez's Brother Has Been Arrested Twice — Where Is He Now?
Aaron's older brother has a couple mugshots of his own.
Updated Sept. 23 2024, 3:28 p.m. ET
There have been more than one documentary and TV series about Aaron Hernandez. In 2020, Netflix released Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez
The three-part docu-series delves into the psyche of the former NFL star, who committed suicide while serving a life sentence in prison in 2017.
In 2024, Ryan Murphy produced the first season of American Sports Story, which also focuses on Aaron, who was found guilty of former friend Odin Lloyd's murder.
One person who has been very vocal about Hernandez's portrayal on the small screen is his brother Dennis "DJ" Hernandez, who wrote a memoir in 2018 titled, "The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother."
Aaron Hernandez's brother spoke out in an interview with Dr. Oz in 2020.
Following the Netflix series' release, Aaron's brother DJ Hernandez spoke with Dr. Oz about the many mysteries surrounding the tight end. Hoping to get some answers from someone who was closest to Aaron, Jonathan revealed that even he still has "so many questions."
"And, for me to sit here and say it was this or that, I can’t say. All you can do is look at the evidence that was provided,” he told Dr. Oz, in regard to why his brother killed Lloyd.
Talking about the former Patriot player's sexuality, DJ suggested that Aaron confided in their mother, Terri Hernandez, about the topic before he died.
“Mom, you're going die never knowing your son,” Aaron told his mother during a prison visit, which prompted an argument between the two "and then all of a sudden they have this conversation and they're both flooded with tears across from each other."
Jonathan added. "The weight of what's on my brother is being expressed and for a mother to be looking at it across from the scratched glass in the zone and seeing your son, who you would've never anticipated him ever being in this situation.”
The Netflix show also touched upon the abuse Aaron endured and the hands of his late father. When Dr. Oz asked DJ if their dad would have been accepting of the football player being gay, he stated, "I don’t know if he would have been able to finish his sentence.”
He continued: "I can’t imagine him even being able to or my dad would have thought he could beat that out of him.”
Opening up about the type of physical abuse his brother lived through, DJ revealed, "I don’t think ‘beat’ is really even the word that can be expressed when you literally have to blow on your brother’s wounds because of the creases of a belt or handprint in your body, and the burning sensation it has."
So, where is D.J. Hernandez now? He's been arrested multiple times.
In July 2023, D.J. was arrested in Bristol, Conn., and charged with breach of peace in the second degree and threatening physical threat following his arrest. According to CNN, he was arrested for threats "he allegedly made against an unidentified woman and her concerns that he may have been planning to do a ‘school shooting."
His social media posts were also alarming to police. One post read, "Will I kill? Absolutely, I’ve warned my enemies so pay up front."
More recently, he was arrested in April 2024 for reckless driving. TMZ reported that D.J. pled guilty to one count of failure to drive in a proper lane and one count of failure to use traffic control signals.
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