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 Associate Justice Susan Garsh asked Ursula Ward to remain
composed and answer attorneys' questions about her late son, Odin
Lloyd, whose body was found with multiple bullet wounds in an
industrial area near Hernandez's house in June 2013.
"You are not to cry," she said, as Ward recounted the last time she
saw her son, who played for the Boston Bandits football team.
Ward had left the courtroom in tears when photos of her son's
lifeless body were shown to jurors earlier in the trial of
Hernandez, 25, who had a $41 million contract with the Patriots when
he was arrested and charged with murder.
On Wednesday, prosecutors asked Ward to identify Lloyd in photos
taken at the medical examiner's office and before his death, wearing
the same plaid shirt as when he was found dead in a construction
area by a jogger.
 Ward said Lloyd played football in high school and went to a
community college before getting a job with an electrical company.
The job required him to travel to Connecticut, where he met his
girlfriend, Shaneah Jenkins, who worked at a hotel where he was
staying, in early 2012.
Jenkins, the sister of Hernandez's fiancée, testified earlier on
Wednesday that Lloyd and Hernandez first met at a Patriots game in
August 2012. Prosecutors contend that Hernandez soured on Lloyd
after Lloyd socialized at a nightclub with people Hernandez
disliked.
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Prosecutors allege 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 used to kill Lloyd.
Wallace and Ortiz also have been charged in Lloyd's slaying and will
be tried separately. All three men have pleaded not guilty.
In a separate case, Hernandez has been accused of killing two Cape
Verdean men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012. He will be tried on
those charges later this year.
Hernandez, quiet through much of the proceedings, greeted his
fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, and other members of his family on
Wednesday to thank them for coming and to say he loved them.
(Editing by Scott Malone, Bill Trott and Peter Cooney)
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