This case right here…SMH.com
SOURCE: CNN
It was around 2:30 a.m. on Monday, June 17, when Odin Lloyd climbed into a silver Nissan Altima.
He had company.
Hours later, Lloyd was dead, shot with a .45-caliber firearm and later found lying in a gravel pit in the southeastern Massachusetts town of North Attleborough.
As of Friday afternoon, the three others who had been in the car with Lloyd early that Monday morning were in custody.
“We believe we have the three individuals,… and we’re very pleased about that,” Bristol County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Sam Sutter said.
Foremost among them — given his public prominence before Lloyd’s death and the charges against him after it — is Aaron Hernandez. He’d been a star tight end with the New England Patriots, at least until the team released him shortly after his arrest Wednesday.
The Bristol, Connecticut, native pleaded not guilty this week to a premeditated murder charge, among others.
“It is a circumstantial case. It is not a strong case,” his attorney Michael Fee said this week in court.
The cloud over Hernandez doesn’t end there. A law enforcement source told CNN that Boston police are “very active” — and making progress — in trying to connect the dots that could link Hernandez to an unsolved drive-by shooting that left two people dead last summer in Boston’s South End.
The Boston Globe reports that the unsolved shooting deaths of two men might have played a role in the motive for Lloyd’s death. The newspaper quoted two law enforcement officials as saying Lloyd may have had information linking Hernandez to the shooting.
“The motive might have been that the victim knew (Hernandez) might have been involved,” the paper said, quoting one of the officials.
For now, prosecutors contend that something Lloyd may have done or said didn’t sit well with the NFL standout. Two days later, they allege, Hernandez rounded up some friends and orchestrated the hit, to settle the score.
On Wednesday, the same day authorities showed up at Hernandez’s door and took him away in a police car, 27-year-old Carlos Ortiz was similarly arrested in Bristol and charged as a fugitive from justice.
Ortiz was in a Massachusetts court on Friday. According to his lawyer, John Connors, Ortiz pleaded not guilty to a single charge of carrying a firearm without a license. That was related to an incident that allegedly took place in Massachusetts, though it was not immediately known if it had any connection with Lloyd’s killing or the double homicide in 2012.
He’ll remain behind bars until a hearing on July 9, at which time Connors said he plans to press a judge to set bail.
Continue reading – HERE.
Be sure to tune into the Midday’s weekly 10am-3pm with RoDigga!
