Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez was already sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd, and amazingly he’s finding himself facing even more time behind bars.
Hernandez was named in court today as the triggerman in a Boston 2012 double murder by a survivor of the shooting;Raychides Sanches.
ESPN provides the details from the courtroom:
Prosecutors asked Raychides Sanches during Tuesday’s pretrial hearing to describe the chaotic scene the night of July 16, 2012.
Sanches said he had been a passenger in a car stopped at a light in the city’s South End when an SUV pulled up. He said someone from the SUV said, “What’s up, negroes?” and then gunfire erupted.
Sanches said bullets struck 29-year-old Daniel de Abreu and 28-year-old Safiro Furtado.
When asked who the shooter was, Sanches nodded in the direction of Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, the Boston Herald reported.
“Looked like him,” he said. “Hernandez.”
Another survivor of the shooting, Aquilino Freire, told the court he was shot twice. He described the shooter as light skinned, with no beard and tattoos.
Hernandez faces two counts of murder in the deaths of Furtado and de Abreu.
Prosecutors allege Hernandez shot the two men for bumping into him in a Boston nightclub earlier in the night.
Hernandez’s defense lawyers are arguing that attorney-client privilege was compromised when prison officials illegally assessed his jailhouse calls…although I’m not sure that will help his cause.
It truly amazes me Hernandez was able to balance a very successful NFL career playing for one of the league’s most rigid franchises, all while apparently being a psychopathic killer.