Members of the jury that acquitted former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez of a double-murder charge were invited to attend Hernandez’s funeral, which included roughly 100 people at the O’Brien Funeral Home on Monday.

“I was invited, but I decided ultimately not to go,” juror Robert Monroe told the Boston Herald. “I received a message — if any of the jurors wanted to go to the Aaron Hernandez funeral, that [Hernandez’s attorney] Jose Baez would rent a bus to get us back and forth.”

Just days after his acquittal, Hernandez was found fatally hanged in his prison cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correction Center. His death was ruled a suicide. He was serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2013.

Monroe was one of 12 jurors who heard Hernandez’s second murder trial over the deaths of Daniel de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Furtado, 28, in 2012. While Monroe wasn’t sure if any members of the jury were in attendance Monday, a handful of current and former NFL players did attend. Miami Dolphins center Mike Pouncey, Pittsburgh Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey and former Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes were present for the proceedings.

“I actually asked a bunch of my friends, should I go, and they thought it was strange. Initially I wanted to go and maybe get some closure, this whole, confusing thing … his suicide … I would have been out of place, I’m not family or a friend,” he said.

Monroe would not disclose how he received an invite to the funeral.

“If it was Jose Baez who set this whole thing up, I could see he recognized that we were in the same room with this guy (Hernandez), for about two months. That perhaps some of us would want that, maybe some of the religious juror members.”