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Aaron Hernandez’s Connecticut hometown prepares for funeral

BRISTOL, Conn. — Family and friends of Aaron Hernandez will say their farewells to the former NFL player during a private funeral in his hometown.

Services are scheduled for 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday for the former New England Patriots tight end, who was found hanged in his cell in a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts last Wednesday.

Hernandez was serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd, who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee, and he had just been acquitted of murder charges in the shooting deaths of two men in Boston in 2012.