The prosecution in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial is playing no games and going to the jury with some serious evidence from the start. Yesterday the played a video that showed Hernandez with a gun in his hand inside his own home just a few hours after Lloyd was killed. Today it got deeper as they shower evidence of Hernandez being at the crime scene itself, as well as shell casings linked to him.
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The mother of the man former New England Patriots standout Aaron Hernandez is accused of killing was overcome with emotion Friday as a prosecutor showed the jury graphic photos of her son’s body at the industrial park where he found.
For a second straight day, Ursula Ward left the courtroom in tears as prosecutors in Hernandez’s murder trial displayed photographs of her son Odin Lloyd’s body. Lloyd was shown lying on his back with his left fist curled in a ball over the gunshot wounds to his chest.
District Attorney Patrick Bomberg showed the jury before-and-after security video to connect Hernandez to Lloyd’s killing.
He played footage that he said showed Lloyd getting into a Nissan Altima rental car driven by Hernandez, then video from the NFL player’s home, taken shortly after Lloyd was killed, without Lloyd in the car.
Prosecutors say Hernandez and two of his friends drove Lloyd to the industrial park and shot him. The two friends are awaiting trial.
The prosecutor also presented an image taken off Hernandez’s video surveillance system that showed Hernandez standing outside his basement, holding what Bomberg said was a gun.
He said a marijuana joint found near Lloyd’s body had Hernandez’s and Lloyd’s DNA. Hernandez’s DNA also was on a shell casing from a bullet found under the driver’s seat of the rental car, Bomberg said. He told jurors that the casing was fired by the same weapon as casings found at the crime scene: a .45-caliber Glock.
It is very early in the trial, but it is not looking good for Hernandez at all.
