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NFL star-turned-killer Aaron Hernandez was on a two-day K2 bender that culminated with his jail-cell suicide, according to a prison probe of the incident.
Details of the troubled 27-year-old’s final days at Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts were revealed in a redacted portion of a 132-page report reviewed by the Boston Globe.
“Well he’s spent the last two days smoking K2 in his cell and he wasn’t in the right frame of mind,” an inmate told authorities investigating Hernandez’s suicide the day of his death on April 19, 2017.
The unidentified inmate added, “That s–t is [expletive] all these young kids up” and “They aren’t going to stop no matter what happens in here.”
Previous reports have suggested smoking K2 drove Hernandez — who was found with 3:16 scrawled in blood on his forehead and scribbled religious verses on his cell walls — to suicide.
But toxicology results found the former tight end had no drugs, including the synthetic marijuana, in his system when he died.
A toxicologist told the Globe that even the best tests may not detect K2.
“These are so potent, the doses are so low, that when a person takes it, you can only measure it in their blood for a short period of time,’’ said Marilyn Huestis, who teaches at the Lambert Center for the Study of Medicinal Cannabis and Hemp at Thomas Jefferson University. “So labs will frequently miss it in the blood.”
Hernandez was serving a life sentence in the 2013 murder of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. He had been acquitted in a double murder just days before he was found dead.
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