Former football star Aaron Hernandez is still in jail as he awaits trial for the murder of his former friend Odin Lloyd. In addition to that the police now think Hernandez “may have been the shooter” in a drive-by shooting in Boston in 2012 that left two men dead and another wounded.
The details of a search warrant were unsealed and revealed that detectives searched a Toyota 4Runner they believe Hernandez was driving the morning Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado were gunned down at a stoplight.
The Toyota was found parked in the garage of a home owned by Hernandez’s uncle following his implication in Lloyd’s death.
It is not clear what – if any – evidence was recovered when the 4Runner was searched. The 2012 deaths remain the subject of an ongoing grand jury investigation in Suffolk County, where Boston is located.
According to Fox Sports:
That first inkling that Hernandez could have been involved in the 2012 killings came after Lloyd’s death. A detective recalled recognizing Hernandez on surveillance footage from a nightclub the victims had visited shortly before they were shot on a highway overpass.
And that initial suspicion was bolstered days later, when a man called police and asserted that the July 16, 2012, shooting, which left a third man wounded, was connected Lloyd’s death. The man said the same person was involved in both killings. He provided enough details about the Boston case to lead detectives to believe that he had intimate knowledge of the shootings.
They located footage of Hernandez parking in a garage down the street from the club at 12:04 a.m. on July 16, 2012, according to the warrant. He was driving a silver 2006 Toyota 4Runner with Rhode Island license plates. The footage showed Hernandez and a man later identified as Bradley outside Cure Lounge a short time later. The two of them entered the club just after Abreu, Furtado and their three friends.
And although Hernandez and Bradley left nearly an hour before Abreu and Furtado, surveillance cameras captured a vehicle believed to be the 4Runner slowly circling the block as the two men and their friends walked to a parking garage to get their car.
The shootings of Abreu, Furtado and the other man were reported less than 15 minutes later several blocks from the club.
The investigation is still ongoing.
– Shaina Auxilly (@Shay_Marie)
