‘American Sports Story’ Producers on Showing Aaron Hernandez Commit Double Murders He Was Acquitted of: ‘He Did Do Those Murders’
variety.comEmily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “Herald Street,” the Oct. 15 episode of FX’s “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez,” now streaming on Hulu. Although “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” is a dramatization of the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, who took his own life in 2017 while serving life in prison, the sixth episode makes a large allegation about what really happened during a night out in 2012.
In the episode, Hernandez (played by Josh Rivera) and Alexander “Sherrod” Bradley (Roland Buck III) are shown leaving a Miami nightclub; Hernandez is extremely angry at two men for laughing at him at a club after accidentally spilling a drink on him.
While at a stoplight, he pulls out a gun and shoots both men before peeling off. Later in the series (as shown in the first episode), Hernandez shoots Bradley in the face.
In real life, Hernandez was acquitted of the 2012 double murder of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, as well as the shooting of Alexander Bradley.
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