Aaron Hernandez Trial: Ex-Patriots Player Caught Dancing Before Odin Lloyd’s Death [Watch]
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was captured on video dancing near the gas pumps of a filling station, a few hours before Odin Lloyd was shot dead in Massachusetts on June 17, 2013, according to reports.
Associated Press Sports noted that the video footage showed the ex-NFL player filling up his rented Nissan Altima. In the video, he can also be seen buying gum and cigarette. The video also captured his co-defendant Carlos Ortiz who had a white towel on his shoulders.
Police reports cited by AP indicated that a white towel was discovered near Lloyd's body in an industrial park near the suspect's residence. Prosecutors have not yet revealed who shot the victim but Hernandez was deemed the mastermind, AP added.
This is the recent revelation from the proceedings of the trial on Wednesday, which, according to AP Sports, included the account of Kelly Rose Belanger, a bar manager in Rhode Island, and Vanessa Sanchez, who was identified as one of the persons included in the group of Hernandez's fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins.
The prosecuting team reportedly presented a receipt of what Hernandez consumed on the night of the murder and that it included 30 alcoholic drinks: 11 Hennessy cognacs, 10 Sex on the Beach mixed vodka drinks, seven Bud Lights and two Grey Goose vodkas which amounted to more than $243.
Meanwhile, according to AP Sports, Belanger recounted that the former NFL player left the bar with one of his male companions (Ortiz). She said she smelled marijuana and saw Hernandez and his male friend smoking it. The bar manager added that she told the two to stop and they followed her request.
After their time at the bar, AP Sports noted that at 2:08 a.m., Hernandez and Ortiz were at the gas station south of Boston.
The two reportedly left the gas station at around 2:12 a.m. then Lloyd, the boyfriend of his fiancee's sister, was discovered dead about an hour and a half later.
The prosecution believes that Hernandez went directly to Lloyd's house in the Dorchester section of Boston from the gas station.
Boston Globe said prosecutors have also presented investigators who testified that there were tire tracks at the industrial yard and footprints left by the suspects. The prosecution said it is bent on proving that the tracks on the crime scene match those of Hernandez's vehicles.
Hernandez has already entered a not guilty plea to first degree murder while Ortiz and another co-accused, Ernest Wallace, are going to be tried separately on the same charges, AP Sports added.