How did Michael Hernandez die in prison?
CRAZED teenage killer Michael Hernandez, 31, died in May 2021, Florida Department of Corrections online records show. He murdered a fellow classmate when he was just 14-years-old. Hernandez was serving a life sentence for the February 2004 murder of Jaime Gough when they were both 14-year-old students at Southwood Middle School in Palmetto Bay, just outside Miami. Hernandez had lured Jaime into a handicapped stall before school with a promise to show him something. He then pulled out a knife, stabbed him more than 40 times and slit his throat. He then hid the knife in a secret compartment in his backpack and went to class. 3 A close-up of a page where Michael Hernandez, the 14-year-old charged with killing a classmate, kept a personal journal that fixated on violence and scrawled the words "will become a serial killer" at the bottom of a printout on mass murderers Credit: AP  After Jaimes body was found, a teacher noticed blood on Hernandez and notified police. Jorge Gough, Jaimes father, told the Miami Herald that he was "shocked to learn of Hernandezs death. "I was not expecting this at all," Gough said. He said he and his wife still talk about their son, who would now be 31, but "not in a sad way". His son was a straight-A student who played the violin. "We miss him, and the big question is: What would he be today?" he said. No cause of death was released, but WFOR-TV said Hernandez was seen on video collapsing, and no foul play is suspected. The teen, who admitted to modeling his behavior on the serial killers in American Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs, was incarcerated at Columbia Correctional Institute, about 50 miles west of Jacksonville. He was an evil evil person who showed no remorse, said retired Miami-Dade prosecutor Gail Levine, who oversaw Hernandezs sentencing hearing. It was discovered that Hernandez had become fascinated with serial killers, studying them online. He had made a list of people he wanted to slay, including Jaime. He was found guilty in 2008 of first-degree murder after a jury rejected his insanity plea. Hernandez had planned to kill two friends, but Andre Martin got leery when Hernandez tried to lure him and Gough into the stall. The bell rang and the three went to class. The next day, Hernandez killed Gough. Hernandez was originally sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was granted a new sentencing hearing after the US Supreme Court banned automatic life sentences without the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of murder. Most read in News SKY PHENOMENON Florida will be hit by Saharan dust storm that may spark Covid-like symptoms Breaking DEADLY SHOOTING House party shooting leaves 3 people dead and 8 injured, cops say JAWS DROPPING Great White shark swallows bird whole as it bobs on water unaware of danger SHIP SHAKE US Navy detonates huge bomb by own aircraft carrier triggering earthquake LAST BREATHS Last footage shows killer husband cradling baby moments before killing wife PEL I NEVER Nancy Pelosi blasted for blocking Covid lab leak probe in 'Soviet cover-up'  In 2015, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John Schlesinger agreed to send him back to prison for life after prosecutors submitted chilling recordings of Hernandez to the court. In the tapes, he boasted about his inability to cry, describing how he idolized violent serial killers and heavy metal music laden with violent lyrics and imagery. I did not anticipate rainbows and unicorns and puppies but what I received was truly grotesque, Schlesinger said of the phone calls, adding: It paints a picture of a person fascinated by killers, by violent movies, violent music lyrics, violent books and violent current events.