neurotic The Gun Nut Who Shot Three Connecticut Police — Killed Two — The murdered pro Aaron Hernandez had a high school football teammate, The Post can reveal.
Online records show that 35-year-old Nicholas Brucher was a student at Bristol Central High School at the same time as New England Patriots star, Hernandez, the disgraced former New England Patriots star. killed himself in prison While serving life without the possibility of parole for murder.
Aaron Hernandez played alongside future police-killer Nick Brucher on the Rams, the 2004 Bristol Central High School varsity team.
According to statistics at the time, Brucher played at least nine games with Hernandez.
Hernandez’s record-breaking run at a Connecticut school coincided with the end of Bracher’s time as a Hawking defensive player.
The future Assassins shared many mutual friends – and were teammates on the school’s varsity football team, the Rams.
match statistics show that in 2004The pair played at least nine games together, beginning with a disastrous season opener on 17 September of that year, in which they were destroyed 62–0 by New Britain.
Cop-killer Brucher was already a 6-foot-2, 240-pound senior, having used his size as a defensive tackle. His last game for the Rams appears to have been a 20–0 win over neighbors Bristol Eastern on 25 November.
Hernandez was only a junior, but already a university standout, Showcasing skills as a tight end that would lead him to the NFL. That year, he caught 67 passes for a total of 1,807 yards, according to Connecticut high school records.
His success was thanks to a partnership with Dennis Sansucci – the quarterback who would later reveal a secret sex With getting tight ends during his middle and high school years.
Before he was shot dead after his bloodbath on Wednesday, Bracher was still Facebook friends with Sansucci, who now lives in Las Vegas. He could not be immediately reached for comment on Friday.
The police-killer was also friends with Hernandez’s brother, Jonathan Hernandez, who later wrote a memoir about his difficult childhood, only a few miles from where Brucher lured the police to his death.
Nearly 20 years after their on-field partnership, Hernandez and Brucher are both dead after gruesome murders.
Bracher kills Sgt. Dustin Damonte, 35, and Officer Alex Hamzy, 34, and seriously injured Officer Alec Urato, 26, on October 12.
Bracher – who regularly posed with guns even at a wedding online – was killed on the spot by police. The motive for the murder of Bracher is unknown.
Meanwhile, Hernandez hanged himself in 2017 in a Massachusetts prison, where he was serving life without the possibility of parole for the June 2013 murder of his one-time friend, Odin Lloyd.
Days before his death at age 27, Hernandez was acquitted of the double murder of two men who were shot in the 2012 drive-by shooting. An autopsy found that he had been smoking copious amounts of K2, a form of synthetic marijuana, just before he died.
Lloyd was a semi-professional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée.
Since his suicide, books and documentaries have been screened The player’s double life that led him to murder shortly after signing a $40 million contract extension with the Patriots.
People close to her pointed to her secret love life with men as well brain scan that reveals serious brain injuries Corresponding to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
This came from playing football, in which Hernandez was already suffering a severe blow to the Rams, the team he played with Brucher, according to his brother’s memoirs and witnesses from the time.
“I saw him get hit, and I saw him go down. And he didn’t get back up,” says Laurie Belmonte, a registered nurse in Bristol. previously told the Boston Globe,
But in the end “Aaron would always stand up,” she said, recalling a time when he was taken to an ambulance.
It was not immediately clear whether Bracher would continue to play after 2004.
However, by Wednesday, he had become a beer drinker, a divorced father of two, known as the “Rowdy One” in his Bristol-based family.