A woman who cleaned the home of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez testified Monday at his murder trial that she saw two guns there before the killing.
Marilia Prinholato testified under oath that she saw the first gun around May 7, 2013, her second time cleaning the house. She said she was straightening the fitted sheet on the bed in a basement guestroom when she discovered it.
“When I took it off, something, a gun, fell out on the floor,” she said.
Prinholato described it as black, heavy and 30 to 40 centimeters long.
Hernandez defense team could say it was something else.
“she said she put it back under the mattress where it had been. She said she saw the same gun once more, the following week, when she lifted up the mattress to see whether it was still there.
A few weeks later, Prinholato said, she was in Hernandez’s bedroom with her boss, who was folding Hernandez’s dirty khakis. As the boss put the pants away in the closet, Prinholato said, the boss pulled a smaller silver gun with black details from the pocket. This gun was 15 to 20 centimeters in length, she said.