NFL Player, Aaron Hernandez charged with murder

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was charged with first degree murder and five other gun-related charges on Wednesday, and the prosecutor in court said Hernandez orchestrated Odin Lloyd's "execution."

Hernandez had been questioned in the killing of Lloyd, an associate of Hernandez who was found dead near Hernandez's house.

Hernandez was transported by police to his arraignment at Attleboro District Court and arrived at the courthouse just before 2 p.m. Eastern. He was mostly expressionless as he heard the charges read in the courtroom, and didn't change expression as he heard the prosecutor outline the case against him. That included the prosecutor saying there was surveillance video of Hernandez with a gun the night Lloyd was shot. The prosecutor asked that Hernandez be held without bail, and despite Hernandez's lawyer Michael Fee's argument that Hernandez is not a risk to flee, the judge ordered Hernandez be held without bail.

Multiple reports said Lloyd's family was in the courtroom for Hernandez's arraignment.

Hernandez is currently without a job, having been cut by the Patriots shortly after his arrest, but the NFL said in a statement that Hernandez "will have his day in court." There is precedent in a player having a very successful career after facing serious charges.

Ray Lewis was charged in murder in 2000, in connection to the deaths of two men outside an Atlanta nightclub. Lewis eventually pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and the murder charges were dropped. Lewis never missed a game because of that legal situation and played with the Ravens through last season, when he won his second Super Bowl with the team.

Lloyd's body was found on June 17 near Hernandez's house. Police have investigated in and around Hernandez's house since then.

The prosecutor offered some details of the charges against Hernandez. Hernandez was seen with Lloyd at 2:30 a.m. the morning he was found dead, according to the Boston Globe's Wesley Lowery, one of the reporters in the courtroom. Hernandez's phone included texts to Lloyd and two friends the night of the murder. According to Lowery, the prosecutor said police have Hernandez on tape with a firearm saying "you can't trust anyone anymore" before picking up Lloyd.

The prosecutor said in court that Hernandez is shown on video walking through his house with a gun in his hand, then Hernandez walks to the basement and the surveillance video turns off.

On Wednesday morning before 9 a.m., police showed up at Hernandez's house and put him in handcuffs after he answered the door, then walked him to a police car and took him into custody.

Less than two hours after Hernandez was arrested, the Patriots cut him.

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[ugksam]

he didnt do it

 

[Ice Water]

This guy is an idiot through and through. Ol watch too much tv dumb dumb.

 

[A.J.Soprano]

did he really catch a body like thaaaaat?

 

[blackzeus]

It had to be over a b*tch. Just doesn't seem like Aaron's the Sam Hurd type.

 

[Chris.B]

smh flexing his muscles to impress a h0e....

Snoop dogg told you fools not to love them h0es but aint listen doe

 

[jackswstd]

Them lawyer fees gon have him broke quick. That's what happens when dumb cats get rich that money only seems to fuel their stupidity.

 

[ugksam]

when he is found not guilty i hope the cowboys sign him

 

[DrX]

bad year of ricans man, 1st holding girls in the basement ...now murking an adult little league players


"ho la...mi fail mi race"


maybe he can have an rican flag print jumpsuit, i know they love that damn flag

 

[Kings County]

jets division to win

 

[intruder]

Where's Gisele (Brady) and Anna (Welker) in all this?

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

I bet you he says nikka too smh.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Just think him and Rae Carruth on the same prison team

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Former Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is probed in two more murders, law enforcement officials say

Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, already facing charges in a murder last week in North Attleborough, is also being investigated in connection with a July 2012 double murder in Boston, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation.

Investigators believe a fight broke out at Cure, a club in the South End, between two men and a group that included Hernandez.

The two men, Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado, friends who grew up in Cape Verde, left the club with three other men in a BMW sedan in the early morning hours of July 16, 2012.

Abreu, who was driving, stopped at a traffic light on Shawmut Avenue, about to make a left onto Herald Street, when a silver or gray SUV with Rhode Island license plates pulled alongside the sedan. Someone from the SUV opened fire, killing Abreu, 29, and Furtado, 28.

The men who were with them survived the attack and the killings were left unsolved.

The officials said investigators now believe that Odin Lloyd, the man Hernandez is charged with killing in a North Attleborough industrial park June 17, may have had information about Hernandez’s role in the double slaying.

“The motive might have been that the victim knew [Hernandez] might have been involved,” one of the officials said.

The new revelations raised the specter that Hernandez might have been playing football games last season with the Patriots after he had participated in a double murder.

Hernandez pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and firearms charges in Attleboro District Court in the killing of Lloyd, who was shot to death June 17 in an industrial park near Hernandez’s North Attleborough home. In other news today, a second man connected to the Lloyd murder was identified: Carlos Ortiz, a 27-year-old man who lives in Bristol, Conn., Hernandez’s hometown.

Police said the shooter in the July 2012 attack fired numerous times into the car, striking Abreu and Furtado, who was in the passenger seat.

One of the back-seat passengers was shot three times in the arm but survived. He was rushed to Tufts Medical Center and was treated and released. The other two occupants fled the car and were unharmed.

The two men’s deaths at the time were a mystery to their families and police, who said they had no ties to criminal activity.

Furtado was a tour guide on the idyllic island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde, where he led a mostly European clientele on jaunts along silky sand dunes, whispering palm trees, and world-class beaches, his family said. He arrived in Dorchester five months before he was killed to reconnect with his mother and sister, whom he had not seen in a decade.

Abreu grew up in Cape Verde, where he worked as a police officer there. He arrived in Dorchester around 2008 and became friends with Furtado. The two men were working together for a cleaning company based on Hamilton Street in Dorchester at the time of their deaths.

Authorities never found the SUV tied to the shooting.

Hernandez’s arraignment Wednesday in the killing of Lloyd came after a week of suspense in which media had camped out in front of Hernandez’s home and followed his car by helicopter, in a futile search for details from tight-lipped law enforcement officials. Residents in Massachusetts and beyond have been riveted by the story of a young, highly paid professional athlete who may have squandered a bright future.

Former Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is probed in two more murders, law enforcement officials say - Boston.com

 

[Mofongo]

bad year of ricans man, 1st holding girls in the basement ...now murking an adult little league players


"ho la...mi fail mi race"


maybe he can have an rican flag print jumpsuit, i know they love that damn flag

Man shut the fukk up, like yall blacks dont stay on the news.