Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was diagnosed with a "severe" form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in an evaluation following his death from an apparent suicide in April.
Per Ken Belson of the New York Times, lawyer Jose Baez announced the results Thursday, stating research concluded Hernandez had "the most severe case they had ever seen in someone of Aaron's age."
The 27-year-old Connecticut native died at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts while serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
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