Ex-NFL
star consoled alleged victim's girlfriend: witness
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[February 04, 2015]
By Daniel Lovering
FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) - Former New
England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez consoled the girlfriend of his
alleged victim at the Massachusetts home where he lived with her sister,
telling her he had "been through this death thing before," the woman
testified on Tuesday.
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Shaneah Jenkins, the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, Shayanna,
said she had visited the house in North Attleborough after the death
of her boyfriend, Odin Lloyd, a semiprofessional football player
whose bullet-riddled body was found in a nearby industrial area.
"He asked me if I was OK, put his hand on my shoulder," she said of
Hernandez. "He told me he'd been through this death thing before,
that it'll get better with time."
Jenkins wept as she recounted a phone call from police in June 2013
informing her that Lloyd, 27, was dead. Hernandez, a rising star in
the National Football League with a $41 million contract, was
arrested days later and charged with Lloyd's murder.
Hernandez, 25, also faces firearms charges. He has pleaded not
guilty to all counts.
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2015/Feb/04/images/ads/current/edward_jones_sda_pollice.png) Jenkins, 23, said her sister received numerous text messages while
they were at the house and when Hernandez was not there and that her
sister's behavior after getting them was "not normal" and
"secretive."
She also said her sister made several trips to the basement, where
Hernandez had a bar and pool table. One time she carried a black
garbage bag folded in her hand, said Jenkins, a law student.
The testimony came after the judge in the case, Associate Justice
Susan Garsh, removed a juror from the panel hearing the case at
Massachusetts Superior Court in Fall River for misleading the court
about attendance at Patriots' games and expressing an opinion on the
case.
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The juror was removed two days after the Patriots' Super Bowl
victory over the Seattle Seahawks.
Hernandez has separately been accused of killing two Cape Verdean
men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012, and will be tried on those
charges later this year.
Prosecutors contend that Hernandez and two friends, Carlos Ortiz and
Ernest Wallace, picked up Lloyd at his home in Boston early on June
17, 2013, and drove him to the industrial park where his body was
found.
Investigators have not recovered the gun that was used to kill
Lloyd.
Wallace and Ortiz also have been charged in connection with Lloyd's
slaying and will be tried separately.
(Editing by Scott Malone, Will Dunham and Peter Cooney)
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