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Fans, Friends Remember James Gandolfini; A Look Back at Gandolfini's Career; Group that Tried to "Cure" Gays Closes; Shooting Probe Surrounds Patriots Player
Aired June 20, 2013 - 09:00 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, thanks so much. Have a great day.
NEWSROOM starts right now.
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COSTELLO: Remembering a great.
JAMES GANDOLFINI, ACTOR: I'm in the waste management business. Everybody immediately assumes you're mobbed up.
COSTELLO: Fifty-one-year-old James Gandolfini dying suddenly of an apparent heart attack.
GANDOLFINI: Because once you enter this family, there's no getting out. This family comes before everything else.
COSTELLO: The iconic actor bringing life and humanity to mobster Tony Soprano.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He definitely put New Jersey on the map.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can't believe it. I'm in shock.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was just really taken aback.
COSTELLO: Also, deep fried controversy.
PAULA DEEN, FOOD NETWORK: Look at all the butter in this kitchen.
COSTELLO: Food Network star Paula Deen and accusations of racial discrimination and using the N-word. A stick of butter, we're afraid, ain't going to make this dish better.
Plus, caught on tape. An apocalyptic waters up hovering over Louisiana.
And bad fit for Zimmer.
GEORGE ZIMMER, FOUNDER, MEN'S WEARHOUSE: You're going to like the way you look, I guarantee it.
COSTELLO: The Men's Wearhouse chief terminated. The former suit boss saying he was silenced. ZIMMER: I guarantee it.
COSTELLO: NEWSROOM starts now.
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COSTELLO: Good morning, I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for being with me. We start this morning with the death of James Gandolfini. The actor best known for his role as Tony Soprano. Gandolfini's family, his friends and his fans say he was a genius, a wonderful tender man, a dear friend, revered for his work on screen.
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GANDOLFINI: I mean, you know why we're here. So if you have any doubts or reservations, now's the time to say so. No one will think any less of you. Because once you enter this family, there's no getting out. This family comes before everything else.
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COSTELLO: Gandolfini was in Rome when he died. The hospital there says he was dead on arrival. Doctors said he likely died of a heart attack. He was just 51.
Before Gandolfini's body can be returned to the United States, medical examiners will perform an autopsy. And the U.S. embassy has to issue a death certificate.
CNN's Nischelle Turner is live in New York with more on James Gandolfini.
Good morning, Nischelle.
NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. We do know now that that autopsy will be performed tomorrow. Maybe we will begin to get some more answers into what happened here. In the meantime, though, fans and friends are celebrating the life of the man who made us love a mobster.
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TURNER (voice-over): The sudden death of James Gandolfini rippled from Italy to the Jersey Shore.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can't believe it. I'm in shock.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Really taken back. I mean, he was such a young man and, you know, just such a nice guy.
TURNER: The Emmy Award-winning actor's death confirmed by HBO. The network, where he shot to fame as the tough talking mob boss Tony Soprano on the hit drama "The Sopranos."
GANDOLFINI: I couldn't ask for more. Salute. TURNER: The HBO representative said the 51-year-old actor may have had a heart attack, though the official cause is not yet known. The news blindsided his closest Hollywood friends. "Sopranos" co-star Steven Van Zandt tweeting, "I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time."
The show's creator David Chase mourned the loss in a statement saying, "He was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes."
Gandolfini was vacationing in Italy where he was scheduled to attend the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily later this week. The press-shy star made one of his last public appearances at this charity event for the Stella Adler Acting Studio in New York City just last week. Among his last film roles was playing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in "Zero Dark Thirty."
GANDOLFINI: You guys ever agree on anything?
TURNER: He may have enjoyed global fame, but he never strayed far from home -- New Jersey.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He definitely put New Jersey on the map, all positive. You know, he just made Jersey better than it already is.
TURNER: One of his best-known fans, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, in a statement said, "It's an awful shock. James Gandolfini was a fine actor, a Rutgers alum, and a true Jersey guy. I was a huge fan of his and the character he played so authentically, Tony Soprano."
The ice cream shop in Bloomfield, New Jersey, which served as the diner setting for the final scene of "The Sopranos" was overflowing with fans after news of the actor's death spread.
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TURNER: And they left that booth there at the diner, Carol, clear with the reserve signs so nobody else would sit there. And you know, James Gandolfini's manager did tell us that he was on his way to that film festival in Sicily and he was going to get an achievement award there.
COSTELLO: So sad.
TURNER: And by the way, Carol, I need to correct something real quick. It was in the package, we did say that he played Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Of course, he played former CIA Director Leon Panetta in "Zero Dark Thirty."
COSTELLO: Who later became defense secretary so there you have it.
TURNER: There you go -- yes. At the time he was --
COSTELLO: He was the CIA chief. TURNER: Yes.
COSTELLO: Thanks so much, Nischelle.
HBO says it will honor Gandolfini by re-running "The Sopranos." In the meantime fans are eager to see more of his award-winning work. Sales of "The Sopranos" are climbing the charts on iTunes. Gandolfini's career is extensive and inspiring.
CNN's Stephanie Elam looks back at his most impressive roles and his many accomplishments.
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JAMES LIPTON, INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO: James Gandolfini.
STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Private, reserved and painfully shy, James Gandolfini granted one of his only in-depth interviews to "Inside the Actor Studio" in 2004.
LIPTON: Where were you born?
GANDOLFINI: Westwood, New Jersey.
LIPTON: What are your parents' names?
GANDOLFINI: Santa and James.
LIPTON: And where were they born?
GANDOLFINI: My father was born in Italy, in a place called Borgataro, and then when he was 2 or 3 he came here. My mother was born in America and moved back to Italy when she was 6 months old and then came back when she was about 20.
ELAM: Perhaps because of his own ties to the Actors Studio, having studied there himself, Gandolfini opened up in the interview revealing a rare look at his early years.
LIPTON: Were you a well-behaved kid?
GANDOLFINI: Up to a point.
LIPTON: What point?
GANDOLFINI: High school.
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ELAM: Gandolfini capped his teen angst years earning a bachelor's degree in communications from Rutgers in 1983. Then he went to New York City to manage a bar.
GANDOLFINI: The club was straight two nights a week, gay two nights a week, and kind of everything else two nights a week.
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So I spent a few years just watching people just in amazement and I saw a lot of interesting things that I stored up for later.
ELAM: Encouraged by a college friend and nightclub regular, Gandolfini attended his first acting class.
GANDOLFINI: It was a Meisner technique class. I went in and I was scared to death. I was shaking.
ELAM: Terrified. But fascinated and determined, Gandolfini would spend the better part of the next decade mastering his craft until finally catching a break in 1992 on Broadway.
GANDOLFINI: I auditioned for the role of Steve in "Streetcar Named Desire" with Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin.
ELAM: A few more theater roles would follow before director Sidney (INAUDIBLE) gave the 30-year-old actor his first major movie role in "A Stranger Among Us." Following several smaller roles in "Mr. Wonderful", "Money for Nothing" and opposite Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino's "True Romance."
GANDOLFINI: Yes, well, maybe you can help me. I'm looking for a friend of mine.
ELAM: Gandolfini's career really gained momentum in the mid-90s playing Geena Davis' boyfriend in "Angie."
GANDOLFINI: We're getting married and you can't go out with me no more?
ELAM: One of the heavies in "Terminal Velocity."
GANDOLFINI: That's very good. That's very funny.
ELAM: And a series of big budget features like "Crimson Tide," "The Juror," "Night Falls on Manhattan," "She's So Lovely," "Fallen" and several co-starring John Travolta including "A Civil Action" and "Get Shorty."
GANDOLFINI: I think you ought to turn around and go back to Miami.
ELAM: But it wasn't the big screen where the Italian-American-Jersey family man would find the role he was born to play. In his late 30s Gandolfini landed the role that would make him a star. New Jersey mob boss, Tony Soprano.
GANDOLFINI: You all right?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's broken a bone.
GANDOLFINI: Let me see. Let me see. (EXPLETIVE DELETED) you prick. Where's my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) money?
ELAM: He never expected to get the part as he told "Inside the Actors Studio."
GANDOLFINI: I got the script and I remember reading it and I was laughing out loud, and I said there's no way I will be able to do this. I really thought that they would pick someone, you know, different than I.
LIPTON: How different? In what way?
GANDOLFINI: You know, suave, good looking, Mafioso guy. You know, just somebody a little more leading man type, basically.
ELAM: He may not have considered himself leading man material, but from the first episode of "The Sopranos" he was an undeniably compelling screen presence. His Tony Soprano was part family man --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Dad --
ELAM: Vulnerable at times, at least in his sessions with his therapist, Dr. Melfi.
LORRAINE BRACCO, ACTOR, "THE SOPRANOS": You always talk about him more like a son.
GANDOLFINI: In some ways he was.
ELAM: A man of strong appetites, sexual and otherwise.
GANDOLFINI: You got time for lunch?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You are my lunch.
ELAM: And an unapologetic mobster with an explosive temper.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tony, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm just having some bad luck.
GANDOLFINI: Yes? Just got worse.
ELAM: Shortly after the show debuted in 1999, series creator David Chase spoke to CNN about his leading man.
DAVID CHASE, "THE SOPRANOS" CREATOR: We have a great cast and of that cast, James Gandolfini is really important to the equation. I think, you know, he's playing a mob boss, a killer, a tough guy. And I think if he didn't have someone playing that role who also can elicit feelings of empathy and sympathy and even pity, I think we'd be -- we wouldn't have the show we have.
ELAM: Some of Gandolfini's finest acting came in scenes with Edie Falco, who played his wife, Carmela. Their marriage featured regular betrayals and Titanic fights.
GANDOLFINI: Allow me.
ELAM: And moments of surprising tenderness.
GANDOLFINI: To my husband. You're not just a funny, smart, lovable, good-looking guy, you're mine. Thank you, baby.
ELAM: Falco spoke of her co-star in glowing terms.
EDIE FALCO, ACTOR, "THE SOPRANOS": I work most often with Jim Gandolfini who was so easy to be married to and to feel like was family with me. It was just so easy to feel we had this long history together and love acting with him. It's -- acting with him is like when you're a kid and you're playing, you know, house or something. You know? It's -- it felt very un-grown up. It felt very enactory. We were just pretending, you know? And it just felt as real as anything has. So it was an absolute joy.
BRACCO: Finish telling me about the day you collapsed?
ELAM: Lorraine Bracco played Tony Soprano's psychiatrist, Dr. Melfi.
GANDOLFINI: Nothing.
BRACCO: And when you work with someone who is better than you, you have to rise to the occasion. You either fall to the side or you rise to the occasion. And --
GANDOLFINI: Hey, I'm serious.
BRACCO: I guess when we just sit in those chairs I kind of rise to the occasion. He's a brilliant actor to watch. He really is.
ELAM: That brilliance earned the actor multiple honors.
GANDOLFINI: Hi. Thanks.
ELAM: He won a trio of Emmys, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe for his work on the show. After accepting his first Emmy in 2000, he spoke to the media backstage.
GANDOLFINI: I was very surprised. I was shocked.
ELAM: On that occasion, he offered his own thoughts on Tony Soprano.
GANDOLFINI: He tries to do the right thing and screws everything up by doing that. Kind of a Ralph Crowned in a kind of honeymooners kind of thing. This is a little more dangerous.
ELAM: In 2003, Gandolfini threatened to leave the series in a salary dispute. HBO sued him for breach of contract, but eventually the matter was settled with Gandolfini reportedly doubling his salary to $800,000 an episode.
GANDOLFINI: Hey.
ELAM: Gandolfini starred in all 86 episodes of "The Sopranos" over the course of six seasons. The run ended in June 2007 with an enigmatic cliffhanger. Viewers were left wondering if Tony Soprano lived or died.
The conclusion of "The Sopranos" was not just the end of an industry changing television phenomenon. It also allowed Gandolfini to take his career in new directions.
KRISTA SMITH, SENIOR WEST COAST EDITOR, VANITY FAIR: He respected the craft of acting. You know, immensely, he took it very seriously.
ELAM: Now in his 40s he was free to take on non-tough guy characters. Branching out from his iconic portrayal of Tony Soprano. Most were supporting roles like 2009's "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3."
GANDOLFINI: Everyone will get where they need to go. We'll make all the stops.
ELAM: That same year he voiced Carol in "Where the Wild Things Are," a movie based on the classic children's book.
GANDOLFINI: You're the king. Look at me, I'm big.
ELAM: True to his theater roots, he returned to the stage in the Broadway comedy "God of Carnage."
GANDOLFINI: Go on. Go.
ELAM: Starring alongside Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Heart and Hope Davis, Gandolfini played a frumpy business man earning him a Tony nomination. The show itself won a Tony for Best Play of 2009. Last year he took on a commanding, yet small part as the CIA director in "Zero Dark Thirty."
GANDOLFINI: And I want to know more about who's inside this house by the end of the week.
Any time there was a role that needed this gravitas or some kind of a sense of -- a little bit of menace maybe, and a little authority, he was a good guy to play that.
GANDOLFINI: Everyone I talked to knows the exact date it would happen.
ELAM: The same year "The Sopranos" ended Gandolfini stepped behind the lens as executive producer again for HBO with "A Live Day Memories, Home from Iraq." A documentary where veterans opened up about their graphic war experiences.
His interests went beyond the documentary. In 2010 he traveled with other actors from "The Sopranos" to Afghanistan on a USO tour.
GANDOLFINI: It's an honor to meet you. Thank you.
ELAM: He then earned a Prism Award for "War Torn, 1861-2010", a documentary that examined posttraumatic stress disorder, especially among soldiers.
UNIDENTIFEID FEMALE: This was something that was definitely a passion project of his, and I know in his own small community, he knew people that were involved in the military and I think this was his way of drawing attention to it.
GANDOLFINI: I see a role model.
ELAM: Continuing his long relationship with HBO, Gandolfini teamed up with the network in 2010, this time as Craig Gilbert in "Cinema Veriti," long gone was the mafia persona. Instead, a bearded documentary filmmaker following the family in a story about America's first reality TV show. At the time of his death, Gandolfini was preparing to star in an HBO series called "Criminal Justice". The fate of that show is now unclear.
Fiercely private, Gandolfini was known to skirt questions about his family life.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He never interested in that. He didn't want to do the fame game.
ELAM: He leaves behind two children. A teenage son from his first marriage and a daughter born in October to his second wife Deborah Lin. The couple married in Hawaii in 2008. Dad at just 51, a life and acting career cut short. Some had hoped to see Tony Soprano again on the big screen.
And although he was known to shy away from the spotlight, he opened up in an interview with "Inside the Actor Studio," answering whimsically when asked about the end of his life.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
GANDOLFINI: Take over for a while, I'll be right back. No, no, no.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's it. Dare not change it. It's too good.
GANDOLFINI: Think of the possibilities.
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COSTELLO: All right. Let's check on some of the other stop stories this morning at 17 minutes past the hour.
Peace talks between the United States and the Taliban could take place within the next few days and could include talks of a possible prisoner exchange. Senior U.S. officials telling CNN they want Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl released. Bergdahl was captured by militants, Taliban militants in 2009. He was last seen in this video in 2011. His family says it recently received a letter from Bergdahl and the United States believes he is still alive and in Taliban custody.
In the next hour, a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on four landmark cases: the Voting Rights Act, affirmative action, same sex marriage, and the Defensive of Marriage Act.
A new CNN poll, well, more than one poll, they're giving insight of how Americans view two of those critical issues. Of the Voting Rights Act, Americans are seeming split, with 48 percent saying it's still necessary while 50 percent say it's not. On affirmative action, a stronger reaction, more than 68 percent say they disapprove of affirmative action programs at colleges and law schools. That's compared to 29 percent who do approve.
Very minimal and very seldom, that's how FBI Director Robert Mueller described the agency's use of drones for surveillance. Mueller made the admission during a Senate panel hearing but did not say how many drones the FBI actually has or how many times they have been used. But an official tells CNN the FBI deploys drones and hostage and barricades situations because they are less visible than helicopters.
Two men in Albany, New York, now under arrest after the FBI says they were involved in a plot to help terrorists. The suspects are accused of building what has been described as a radiation van that could emit lethal x-rays. Really?
Here's how one official summed it up.
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JOHN DUNCAN, EXEC. ASST. U.S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NORTHERN NEW YORK: It would be capable of inflicting death on humans. If used in the fashion for which it was designed. As I said, it was designed to be mobile. It was designed to have a remote power source and the defendants it's alleged that constructed a particular mechanism to turn it on remotely and turn it off remotely. They would not be in the area when this device would be turned on and directed towards specific targets.
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COSTELLO: The men were caught after one of them tried to get help building the van from a local Jewish organization. That group reported him to authorities.
An Arizona wildfire in the Prescott National Forest grows to 7,500 acres in less than two days. Our affiliate KNXV reports that 460 homes have been evacuated, but no structures lost as of now. Investigators say someone caused this fire but they're still looking for the exact source.
A conservative Christian group that focused on trying to cure gay men and women of homosexuality through conversion therapy is closing its doors. It's shutting down. The group is called Exodus International. Its president, Alan Chambers, who admitted he, himself is attracted to men is now apologizing to gays and lesbians. He even apologized some people killed themselves because of conversion therapy.
The church of the story will be exposed on Oprah's OWN network tonight. Gay and lesbians were outraged to Chambers and demanded the ministry close down.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No matter how many times I pleaded with God to take this away from me, I couldn't do it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You are responsible.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The organization needs to shut down. Shut down. Don't tweak it. Don't try to improve it. Shut it down.
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COSTELLO: CNN's Nick Valencia is following this for us.
There's a caveat here. So, Exodus is not exactly shutting down.
NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's a rebranding, right? It's changing its name in essence. They say they're going to start a new ministry. It's called "Reduce Fear." Their message this time around, Carol, is that they'll be more welcoming, more wide open. They say gay or straight, at the end of the day, we're all prodigal sons and daughters of God. They want to carry that message forward for the new generation of Christians.
But before they closed their doors, they did issue a statement which read in part. I'll read some of it here. It says, "More than anything, I'm sorry that so many have interpreted this religious rejection by Christians as God's rejection. I'm profoundly sorry that many have walked away from their faith and that some have chosen to end their lives."
You remember Exodus International became famous or infamous depending on how you look on it for reparative therapy or conversion therapy. That's the practice of making someone believe that they are changed from their sexual orientation from being gay to straight using therapy.
Of course, they backed away from that after the American Psychological Association. They condemned the practice. The organization subsequently sort of pulled back.
COSTELLO: OK, so, I'm not getting this. So, Exodus has renamed itself.
VALENCIA: Yes.
COSTELLO: So, is it now welcoming gay Christians into its church and it's OK? What does that mean, rebranding?
VALENCIA: See, this is a great point that gets into another aspect of the story. That many critics of this organization believe that this is a half-hearted apology. While the board comes out and says they're becoming more wide open and welcoming. They do say they're very strict in the scriptures of the Bible when it comes to surrounding sex and there are very strict boundaries when it comes to marriage. They say do not apologize for those beliefs.
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VALENCIA: They're closing their doors and it's a rebranding, in essence, Carol. We'll see how it plays out going forward.
COSTELLO: All right. Nick Valencia, thanks.
Former baseball great, Joe Torre played 18 years in the majors but never made a better catch than his own daughter did in Brooklyn.
Christina Torre was biking to work when she saw a baby about to fall from an awning at least about 10 feet above the sidewalk. She dashed to the scene and managed to catch the 1-year-old boy who had crawled out of a window of a second story apartment before tumbling on to that awning.
The baby is doing just fine. But his parents were taken into custody. In the meantime, Joe Torre says, hey, his daughter always had good hands. That's amazing.
Just ahead in NEWSROOM --
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You'll like the way you look, I guarantee it.
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COSTELLO: But you're fired. The face of men's warehouse out the door. We'll tell you why.
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COSTELLO: It has been an off season to forget for New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. For the second time since the season ended, the receiver is under investigation for a shooting. The most recent one took place not far from his Massachusetts home a few days ago, where a man was found dead. Hernandez was reportedly questioned and police searched his home.
CNN's John Berman joins us now with more on this murder mystery.
Hi, John.
JOHN BERMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol. How are you doing?
There are reports that the two men, Aaron Hernandez and this dead man may have been seen as a Boston nightclub the night before this man died. And now, Aaron Hernandez, a pro-bowl tight end, he's being questioned in two separate incidents, each resulting in someone being shot and one of them fatally.
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BERMAN (voice-over): This is the first time we're seeing the New England Patriots tight end, Aaron Hernandez, outside his Massachusetts home, as investigators search for answers to a mysterious murder. Media, neighbors and tourists flood the streets outside his North Attleboro home.
While nearby, police sift through the woods for clues, clues that could shed some light on what happened to 27-year-old Oden Lloyd, a victim of homicide, found dead in this industrial park less than a mile away from the 23-year-old's star football player's home. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kid came up knocking on the window saying he saw somebody laying down, not moving. My boss and I went down there and saw a guy dead there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was not buried. He was just lying there as if he was either dropped there or killed there.
BERMAN: "The Boston Globe" quotes sources that say Hernandez and the victim may have been seen together at a Boston club the night before Lloyd's body was found. Police have not released the cause of Lloyd's death, but according to Boston's WBZ, law enforcement sources say he was shot.
His death leaving his family and friends reeling with grief.
URSULA WARD, VICTIM'S MOTHER: My son is a wonderful child. He's a family guy, and he has not done anything to hurt anyone.
OLIVIA THIBOU, VICTIM'S SISTER: My brother's my keeper, that's all I can say. He's always had my back through anything and you know, it's just tough that he's not here. I hope that we find out who did it.
BERMAN: Police visited the home of Hernandez twice this week but "Sports Illustrated" reports they have not named him as a suspect. An attorney for Hernandez provided this statement to CNN, "Out of respect for that ongoing investigation process, neither we nor Aaron will have any comment about the substance of that investigation until it has come to a conclusion."
This murder mystery unfolding in Massachusetts while down in Miami, another man, Alexander Bradley, filed a lawsuit against the Patriots player, alleging Hernandez shot him after they left a strip club together in February.
The case was dismissed Monday over an error in the original paperwork, but Bradley's attorney told CNN, it will be refiled.
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BERMAN: Now, in the Massachusetts investigation, the police are asking the public's help in locating a silver mirror cover, which is believed to have broken off a vehicle, that could be visible along the route between Boston and North Attleboro, that is where the man, the victim, that dead man may have been traveling.
Meanwhile, Aaron Hernandez is in the second year of a five-year, $40 million contract -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Unbelievable. That's strange story. John Berman, thanks so much.
BERMAN: Thank you.
