Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Former New England Patriot tight end Aaron Hernandez charged with First-degree murder
Former New England Patriot tight
end, Aaron Hernandez has been charged with first-degree murder and 5 other gun
related charges on Wednesday this is coming barely over a week after a body was
found near his Massachusetts home. Hernandez has entered a plea of not
guilty to murder and to five firearms charges, including possessing a
large-capacity firearm. A judge ordered him to be held without bail because of
the murder charge.
Hernandez had been questioned in
the killing of Lloyd, an associate of Hernandez who was found dead near
Hernandez's house. Much of the case was laid out in court as the prosecutor
asked the judge that Hernandez be held without bail – a request that was
granted.
"He orchestrated the crime
from the beginning and took steps to conceal and destroy
evidence," First Assistant District Attorney Bill McCauley told the
court.
Prosecutors said that the killing
was prompted by a fight between the two friends during a trip on June 14 to a
Boston nightclub. On June 17, Hernandez and two friends allegedly picked Lloyd up
at his house at 2:30 a.m. Surveillance footage from Hernandez's house shows him
leaving earlier in the night with a weapon, prosecutors said.
After getting into the car, Lloyd
allegedly texted a family member, asking, "Did you see who I am
with," prosecutors said. He then texted that it was Hernandez and followed
it up with, "Just so you know" in another text message, they alleged
during the arraignment.
Later that morning, between 3:23
a.m. and 3:27 a.m., employees who were working the overnight shift at the
industrial park where Lloyd's body would later be found reported hearing
gunshots, authorities said. It's not clear who investigators believe fired the
shots.
"It is not a strong
case," Michael Fee, Hernandez's attorney, who had asked for bail, said in
court.
But prosecutors allege home
security videos from Hernandez's house show him with firearms after Lloyd had
been murdered, and show a Nissan Altima — the same type of car Hernandez had
rented — going to and coming from the site where Lloyd's body had been found.
He was seen exiting the vehicle at 3:29 a.m. with a gun at his home on the
surveillance footage, prosecutors claim, shortly after authorities say Lloyd
was killed.
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