Hernandez sued in deaths of men police link to ex-NFL player

BOSTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The families of two men shot to death in 2012 say they filed suit against former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who police have linked to the deaths.

The suits, filed in Boston, seek $6 million each for the wrongful deaths of Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday.

No one has been charged in their deaths but Boston police allege Hernandez, 24, was driving the sports utility vehicle from which shots were fired at Abreu and Furtado, killing them as they sat in a vehicle in Boston's South End.

Hernandez is charged in the June 2013 death of Odin L. Lloyd of Dorchester. He has been jailed without bond on murder and weapons charges.

He also faces a wrongful death suit from Lloyd's family, as well as a civil action in Florida by former associate Alexander Bradley, who claims Hernandez shot him in the eye in February 2013.

Bradley was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly fired multiple shots at a nightclub where he had earlier been shot in the leg.

Attorneys for both Hernandez and Bradley have requested the Florida suit be put on hold for at least 120 days since both men are in jail.