The case against Aaron Hernandez just keeps building. Investigators have reportedly found several items that could be key pieces of evidence.
Report after the jump…
Via FoxSports:
DARTMOUTH, MASS. (AP)
THE NEWS
The investigation of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has reportedly turned up another key piece of evidence.
According to FOX 25, two properties connected to Hernandez are now part of the ongoing investigation as he remains in a Bristol County jail after pleading not guilty to murder in the death of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. Police have reportedly confiscated evidence from a condo and are searching a home owned by his uncle in Bristol, Conn.
According to the Sun Chronicle, a white hooded sweatshirt “consistent with the one allegedly worn” on the night of the murder has been found in the condo Hernandez rented. The report also states that investigators have “seized a baseball cap and a valet parking ticket from the W Hotel, which is within walking distance of the Rumor nightclub.” That nightclub is where Hernandez and Lloyd were seen together on June 14 and where, according to FOX 25, prosecutors claim “Lloyd made a comment to someone at the club that upset Hernandez and that Hernandez felt Lloyd could not be trusted.”
In addition, the two sites report that police found ammunition in the condo, including ammo for a .45-caliber, which is the same as that of the handgun used in the murder.
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Via ESPN:
Court documents indicate the search of a secret “flop house” leased by former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has turned up what police say could be key evidence in the murder case against him.
Police say they learned about the apartment from Carlos Ortiz, a friend of Hernandez’s whom prosecutors say was with the ex-player the night he allegedly arranged the shooting of Odin Lloyd.
They then searched the $1,200-a-month apartment in Franklin on June 26, according to search warrant records at Wrentham District Court. Among the findings were a white hooded sweatshirt and a cranberry-colored cap in a bedroom, the documents said.
Surveillance video showed Hernandez, 23, wearing a similar sweatshirt the night Lloyd was killed on June 17, the records say.
He was wearing the cap in a picture shown on a local news station taken outside a nightclub June 14, the Friday before the killing, the documents said. Prosecutors say Hernandez was upset at Lloyd for talking to certain people at the nightclub.
“The white sweatshirt could be used … to assist in linking Hernandez to the scene of the crime,” wrote Trooper Michael Bates, in an affidavit in support of one of the search warrants.
“The baseball hat could help provide the whereabouts of Hernandez on the Friday night before the homicide,” Bates wrote.
The search also turned up several boxes of ammunition, including .22-, .45- and 7.62-caliber ammunition.
Lloyd’s body was found in an industrial park near Hernandez’s North Attleborough home. Prosecutors say Hernandez, Ortiz and another man drove there with Lloyd that night, though they haven’t said who shot Lloyd.
Hernandez’s attorneys say the evidence against him is circumstantial and that he’s eager to clear his name.
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