Dennis Hernandez Had Been Planning School Shootings: Report

BRISTOL, CT — Dennis "DJ" Hernandez—the brother of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez—has been arrested for a fourth time this year as police fear he had been planning school shootings, according to an arrest warrant obtained by WFSB.

The Bristol Police Department arrest warrant said that Hernandez's latest arrest came after police discovered he seemed to have been planning shootings at the University of Connecticut and Brown University.

The warrant outlines claims by multiple people that Hernandez was mentally ill and had been acting 'very erratically' — two of whom said that Hernandez had traveled to the two schools to 'map them out' because he was planning school shootings.

One of the people police interviewed was a woman who said she had been dating Hernandez but they had recently broken up, according to the warrant. The woman said she had witnessed Hernandez have a breakdown earlier this month after people recognized him at a beach in Rhode Island.

In the warrant, this woman corroborated another person's claims that Hernandez had visited the two schools, adding that he had done so in lieu of attending a court hearing for an incident that occurred earlier this year.

Hernandez said that he "has a bullet for everyone," the woman said, according to the warrant.

Police also said they found numerous threats made by Hernandez on his social media and through texts, writing in the warrant that "it became readily apparent that [Hernandez] was gravely disabled and a danger to society."

Hernandez was first arrested and charged in March after being accused of throwing a brick on ESPN's Bristol campus and engaging police in pursuit. The subsequent arrest came when he failed to show up to a court hearing in July.

Dennis Hernandez's brother Aaron Hernandez was from Bristol and was a former Pro Bowl tight end for the Patriots. He was convicted of murder in 2015 and committed suicide in a Massachusetts prison in 2017. His case — and life — have been heavily analyzed in media reports and documentaries.