Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez will invoke his fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination in response to a lawsuit claiming he shot a one-time associate in the face outside a strip club in Miami. 

According to Sports World News, the lawsuit was filed by former associate 30-year-old Alexander Bradley. Bradley has been in prison since he failed to respond to a grand jury subpoena.  

The lawyers for Hernandez filed their client's response last week to the suit by Bradley, who also claims he partially lost his sight due to the attack. 

Bradley claims Hernandez shot him after they had a disagreement at the club. He is seeking at least $100,000 in damages. 

A Miami judge recently denied Hernandez's request to delay the court case until a pending murder charge against him is delivered. Hernandez was charged in June with first-degree murder in the killing of another associate, 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. 

Lloyd's body was found less than a mile from Hernandez's mansion in North Attleborough, and authorities believe he may have killed Lloyd due to his knowledge of other violent crimes Hernandez has allegedly committed.  

Authorities also believe the former tight end may have been the shooter in an unsolved 2012 double murder in Boston's South End. 

A Connecticut judge previously unsealed a search warrant affidavit that was filed by police requesting permission to search and investigate a seized silver SUV located at the home of Hernandez's uncle, which is the vehicle police believe was used in the July 6, 2012 drive-by shooting of Safiro Furtado and Daniel Abreu. 

According to Boston.com, the affidavit states that there is "probable cause to believe that Aaron Hernandez was operating the suspect vehicle used in the shooting homicides of Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado, and may have been the shooter."

Currently, Hernandez has not been charged in connection with the 2012 double murder. Yet, the affidavit raises the possibility that Hernandez may have played with the Patriots in the 2012-2013 season after he committed murder. 

Large portions of the affidavit, which was prepared June 28, were redacted. The document did not reveal what police found in the search. That information will be revealed on a search warrant "return," which has not yet been released. 

The affidavit states that an anonymous tipper told Boston police that the South End murders and Lloyd's slaying may have been linked. 

Days after Hernandez was linked to Lloyd's murder, police received a tip from a nightclub security staff member who said he overheard a conversation that links Hernandez to both the 2012 slayings and the 2013 murder. 

Police looked at surveillance video from the night of the shootings, and saw Hernandez walking into a nightclub right after the victims, then leaving the club minutes later. He then drove the vehicle around the block multiple times hours later as the victims left the club and went to their vehicle. 

No one has been arrested for the double murder, but police have recovered the .38-caliber pistol that was believed to have been used in the slayings. 

Police believe the SUV may have been stored in the garage of Hernandez's uncle for more than a year following the shooting. 

Investigators wrote in the document that they wanted to search the car because "gunshot residue may still exist in the vehicle since there is reason to believe that the vehicle has remained untouched and stored in an enclosed garage for close to a year."

Hernandez remains in jail without bond, and is in solitary confinement at the Bristol County Jail.