Aaron Hernandez will be spending the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of the 1st degree murder of his ‘friend’ Odin Lloyd, & it’s looking like he’ll get a couple more lifetimes after his new double murder trial began earlier this week.
After the Lloyd murder case, police reopened investigations into an alleged 2012 double murder Hernandez committed in downtown Boston after he felt disrespected in a nightclub.
Police allege Hernandez shot both Daniel de Abreu & Safiro Furtad dead in their vehicle after an altercation that began inside of the club:
*The prosecution claims Hernandez shot at a car de Abrueu and Furtado were driving in because one of the men bumped into him inside of the club they were at and spilled a drink on him.
*Hernandez’s former friend Alexander Bradley—who was with Hernandez on the night in question—told police Hernandez taunted the victims after shooting them. The prosecution claims he yelled “What’s up now?” at them.
*Bradley also reportedly told police Hernandez bragged about his aim after firing a gun five times into de Abrueu and Furtado’s vehicle. “I got one in the chest,” Hernandez reportedly said. “I got one in the head.”
If that wasn’t crazy enough, Hernandez apparently got spooked when Bradley mentioned he thought cops were after him stemming from “that effed up stuff you did in Boston last summer” when they noticed a heavy police presence in a nightclub in Florida.
Big mistake.
Prosecutors allege Hernandez heard this statement, and took it upon himself to shut Bradly up by shooting him in the head and leaving him to die in a parking lot.
Bradley didn’t die, and was probably understandably pissed at Hernandez, so of course he turned witness and this brings us to today and him telling the prosecutors stuff like this:
Hernandez’s former friend Alexander Bradley—who was with Hernandez on the night in question—told police Hernandez taunted the victims after shooting them. The prosecution claims he yelled “What’s up now?” at them.
Prosecutors also released a photo showing Hernandez & Bradley together near the double murder scene in Boston around the time it occurred; which would back up what Bradley is saying:
Surveillance shows #AaronHernandez & his former friend Alexander Bradley (prosecution witness) at parking garage near murder scene. #wbz pic.twitter.com/KTdVfbyBDV
— Christina Hager (@HagerWBZ) March 2, 2017
I still can’t believe Hernandez was balling out on the field at a Pro Bowl level while being a serial killer in his spare time.
With the evidence mounting against him in this case, and his other murder trial (Lloyd) all wrapped up with a life sentence, it’s no wonder Hernandez is walking around court doing stuff like this:
#AaronHernandez returns to Courtroom 906 laughing and back-slapping his defense team. Utterly baffling.
— Laurel J. Sweet (@Laurel_Sweet) March 2, 2017
The trial is expected to last four to six weeks, and I doubt the jury will have much to deliberate.