Aaron Hernandez’s Friend Alexander Bradley Is Serving Five Years Sentence In Connecticut Prison

Alexander Bradley is the best friend of late American professional football player Aaron Hernandez. 

The documentary American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, released on September 17, 2024, followed the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez and his controversy with Alexander Bradley. 

Highlights

• Bradley claimed that after an argument outside a Florida strip club in 2013, Aaron shot him between the eyes. 
• American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez showcased the rise and fall of NFL star Aaron Hernandez. 
• Alexander Bradley is in prison, serving a five-year sentence. 

Hernandez and Bradley had a troubled relationship when they argued while visiting a Florida strip club, where they rang up a $10,000 bill.

Aaron started being worried about two men sitting across two men sitting across from them, thinking they were plainclothes Boston police officers. 

Bradley recalled telling Hernandez they were probably tracking the pair as part of their investigation into the double m*rder outside the Cure. 

Later, Alexander claimed that on February 13, 2013, he woke up in a car with Hernandez pointing a gun at his face.

The following day, police found Bradley lying in a parking lot and bleeding from a bullet hole between his eyes. 

Luckily, Bradley survived but lost his right eye. He didn’t cooperate with the police but instead sought revenge. 

Alexander Bradley Is An Admitted D*ug Dealer

Alexander Bradley, 41, was born in 1983 in Bristol, Connecticut, United States. He has been private about his personal life. 

He is a d*ug dealer with a violent reputation and a criminal history, according to a 2017 Boston Globe report.

Prosecutors in Hernandez’s double m*rder trial called him a d*ug kingpin and a dealer. 

Dan Wetzel, an author of “K*ller Inside,” said that Alexander was capable of k*lling Aaron Hernandez. 

When eyewitness Alexander Bradley walked into court, #AaronHernandez and him had a lengthy stare down. #FOX25 pic.twitter.com/KZ4CeQwmL1

— Adam Liberatore (@bostonTVguy) March 20, 2017

 

Alexander was no stranger to fights, as he was once shot in the groin (the area between the abdomen) after getting into an altercation at a nightclub in Hardtford in 2014.

He immediately responded by running out to his car, blood dripping down his pants, and firing 11 gunshots into the bar. 

Aaron Hernandez’s Former Friend, Alexander Bradley, Is Currently In A Lockup

In January 2017, a judge sentenced Bradley to serve five years in lockup for shooting up a Hartford bar in Connecticut, according to The Hartford Courant. 

After three years of being locked in prison, Bradley told Superior Court Judge Julia D. Dewey that, 

 “I’m not the same person I was three years ago,” “It was a tumultuous time in my life. I was going through some traumatic events.”

Alexander received five years of special parole in addition to his prison sentence.

According to Duffy Law, in Connecticut, special parole is made part of a defendant’s original sentence,” as opposed to early released from sentence. 

However, Connecticut prison records showed he is on parole until 2024. 

Additional Information

• Alexander Bradley was in a relationship with his ex-girlfriend Brooke Wilcox, who testified at the Aaron Hernandez trial. 
• On April 28, 2007, Aaron Hernandez refused to pay the bill for two drinks he consumed in a restaurant and was escorted out by a restaurant employee. 
• Bradley and Aaron were out in Boston together on July 16, 2012, the night that Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu were assassinated in a car.