Is this the prisoner who Aaron Hernandez
wrote to before his shocking suicide is a 22-year-old man jailed for a
knife point robbery at a gas station near his home, DailyMail.com can
exclusively reveal.
Kyle Kennedy was
the last person to see the former New England Patriot alive and is now
on suicide watch inside the maximum security Souza-Baranowski
Corrections Center, sources say.
He is the man to whom Hernandez gave a $50,000 watch and other property shortly before he took his life.
Kennedy was
arrested in January 2015 for an early morning robbery at a Cumberland
Farms gas station in Northbridge, Massachusetts. He was wearing a black
mask and carrying 'a long butcher-style knife,' according to a report.
He got away with just $189
DailyMail.com
exclusively reported last week that Hernandez, 27, who was found dead
hanging from a bed sheet in his cell early on Wednesday morning last
week, left three suicide notes.
One was
addressed to his fiancée Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, the second to
their four-year-old daughter Avielle and the third to a prisoner, who
high level prison sources described as his prison lover.
That
man is Kennedy, the son of a businessman from Uxbridge, Massachusetts,
close to the Rhode Island state line, the sources reveal.
When
approached at his home at the end of a leafy cul-de-sac, Kennedy's
stepmother Deborah, refused to comment and drove in through the
automatic gates.
Within minutes his
father Matthew, 42, ran out of the home, which is set on more than four
acres of land, and furiously berated a DailyMail.com team sitting on a
public road outside his house, yelling: 'Get the f**k away and don't
f**king come back.'
Court documents
show that Kennedy's own father accused him of using heroin. Daily
Mail.com has also leaned the 22-year-old In 2012 was sentenced to nine
months for trafficking heroin in 2012 and a year for heroin possession
in 2013.
It's been reported
that Hernandez had given his jailhouse lover's family a $50,000 watch
before his suicide. The station did not say which member of the family
received the watch.
Kyle Kennedy was
arrested in January 2015 for an early morning robbery at a Cumberland
Farms gas station in Northbridge, Massachusetts. He was wearing a black
mask and carrying 'a long butcher-style knife,' according to a report in
the local news. He got away with just $189.
He
then led police on a high speed chase and after being arrested ran out
of the police station in an attempted escape, according to reports at
the time.
After being stopped by police
officer Peter Bates, Kennedy drove his red sedan off at speeds of up to
110 mph on Route 146 near his home town, court documents show.
'The
sedan drove down the off ramp of the exit, Bates said, striking several
signs and scraping the side of the guardrail,' the newspaper reported.
When approached at his home at
the end of a leafy cul-de-sac, Kennedy's stepmother Deborah, refused to
comment and drove in through the automatic gates. Within minutes his
father Matthew, 42, ran out of the house furiously berated a
DailyMail.com team sitting on a public road outside his house, yelling:
'Get the f**k away and don't f**king come back'
Matthew Kennedy's home, the address listed by local press when Kyle was arrested, is set on more than four acres of land.
'According
to Bates, the sedan attempted to circle back onto Rte. 146 by going up
the ramp, but could not make the maneuver and stopped.'
While
being held at Northbridge Police Station over the Martin Luther King
Day weekend, Kennedy asked to make a phone call and while the officer
was dialing he made a dash for freedom out of the door.
'Police pursued Kennedy through three residential yards until he eventually gave up on Edgemere Avenue,' the newspaper reported.
The
final entry on Kyle Kennedy's Facebook page was posted minutes before
his arrest at 12.58 am on Sunday January 18, 2016. It said simply: 'Pray
4 Me.'
A post 35 minutes earlier said: 'Who got wheels and wanna make $.'
Other posts show him holding huge wads of cash.
In a letter to the Worcester
Superior Court Matthew Kennedy wrote: 'I am requesting the court to
revoke Kyle's bail. 'Kyle had begged me to bail him out of the house of
corrections with the understanding Kyle would attend and complete a
program that I had lined up in Boston,' added the older Kennedy.
But
three months earlier, in October 2014, he had written: 'today is the
start of my new life…getting all my s**t prioritized for my long week
ahead of me. im about to make a lot of changes in my life so please
don't take anything personal if I stop answering you. Thanks.'
Papers
show that Matthew Kennedy bailed his son out, paying $12,500 of his
$125,000 surety. But in September 2015 he had a change of mind.
In a letter to the Worcester Superior Court Matthew Kennedy wrote: 'I am requesting the court to revoke Kyle's bail.
'Kyle
had begged me to bail him out of the house of corrections with the
understanding Kyle would attend and complete a program that I had lined
up in Boston,' added the older Kennedy.
'I
also hired an independent counselor to bring him to the program and
keep an eye on him so he would complete and hopefully live a normal
life.
'This person brought him to
Boston the day after he was bailed and checked him in. Kyle stayed one
day and left the program! To the best of my knowledge he is living in
Worcester with no job and back using heroin.
'I believe Kyle is a threat to himself and anyone around him. Also, given his history, he is a flight risk.'
Kennedy
was charged with armed and masked robbery but in a deal he agreed to
plead guilty to the lower charge of armed robbery. He was sentenced to
3-5 years in state prison in December 2015.
He was originally sent to the Cedar Junction maximum security facility in Walpole, Massachusetts.
In an online profile on the website Write A Prisoner, Kennedy described his sexual orientation as 'straight.'
'Hello,
my name is Kyle,' he wrote on the site in May last year. 'I signed up
on this website so I can correspond and possibly build friendships with
people from around the world.
'I stand at 5' 10', I weigh 175
pounds, I have brown hair and brown eyes. I am also heavily tattooed. I
work out, read books and write to help me pass the time while
incarcerated,' he added
Kennedy — prisoner number
W107335 — revealed on the site that he is serving time for armed robbery
and said his earliest date for release is March 1 next year
'I
stand at 5' 10', I weigh 175 pounds, I have brown hair and brown eyes. I
am also heavily tattooed. I work out, read books and write to help me
pass the time while incarcerated,' he added.
'My
hobbies on the street include racing motocross, building and
customizing cars and motorcycles and doing anything that includes the
outdoors. I am currently working to attain my Barbering license.'
He ended his profile with the words: 'If you want to get to know me, I'm just a stamp away! Thank you, Kyle.'
Kennedy
— prisoner number W107335 — revealed on the site that he is serving
time for armed robbery and said his earliest date for release is March 1
next year.
Lawrence Army, the Kennedy
family attorney, told DailyMail.com he had no comment. He said he was
visiting Kyle in prison on Monday 'to see what's going on.'
Calls to Massachusetts Department of Corrections spokesman Christopher Fallon were not immediately returned.
Hernandez,
a Super Bowl-winning tight end with the Patriots, killed himself last
week. His family has donated his brain to a team from the University of
Boston to see whether he was suffering from chronic traumatic
encephalopathy (CTE), a condition caused by repeated hits to the head.
Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, 27,
looked drawn as she and daughter Avielle stepped out just before sunset
on Wednesday, the day after her life partner and fiance, Aaron
Hernandez, committed suicide in jail
He
had been serving a life sentence without possibility of parole for the
murder of his close friend Odin Lloyd, but just five days earlier had
been acquitted of a separate double murder.
One
theory for Lloyd's murder is that he knew about Hernandez's bisexuality
and might tell Shenea Jenkins — Hernandez's fiancée's sister — who
Lloyd was dating.
Hernandez had a long-term gay lover before he was imprisoned who was
due to give evidence at his murder trial. But shortly before the case he
transferred a large sum of money into the man's bank account.
As
exclusively revealed by DailyMail.com, Hernandez — prisoner number
W106228 — had carefully planned his death. He had soaped the floor in
his cell, so he would not be able to stand if he changed his mind after
attempting to take his own life.
He had
also given away his property to fellow inmates and left the three notes
next to a Bible opened to John 3:16, the number scrawled that on his
forehead in red marker.
The Cumberland Farms store Kyle Kennedy robbed at knife point
John 3:16, often described as 'the
gospel in a nutshell' reads: 'For God so loved the world that he gave
his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but
have eternal life.'
He jammed the door
to the cell — number G2-57 — with cardboard and piled furniture against
the door to slow down anyone trying to enter. He also covered the
interior window with a curtain to cover up his nakedness, according to
Boston's CBS affiliate.