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 Jennifer Fortier, 28, said she and a friend got into a black SUV
Hernandez was driving after they left a Boston nightclub around 2
a.m. on June 16, 2013. Hernandez drove them out of Boston to the
apartment 42 miles (68 km) to the southwest, where he came onto her,
she said.
Joining them in the SUV and in the apartment was a man she later
recognized from news reports as Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional
football player who was dating Hernandez's sister.
Hernandez, 25, is accused of fatally shooting Lloyd the following
day. He is being tried on murder and firearms charges at Bristol
County Superior Court in Fall River, Massachusetts. If convicted, he
faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.
He had a $41 million contract with the New England Patriots before
he was arrested and dropped from the team.
Prosecutors say Hernandez and two friends, Ernest Wallace and Carlos
Ortiz, picked up Lloyd at his Boston home in the early hours of June
17, 2013, and drove him to an industrial park near Hernandez's house
in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, where his bullet-riddled body
was found later that day.
Wallace and Ortiz have also been charged with murder and will be
tried separately. All three have pleaded not guilty.
Fortier, the babysitter, said Hernandez drove her and her friend to
the Franklin apartment, where he took wine from the refrigerator and
later summoned her to the bedroom and kissed her. Hernandez had
rented the apartment earlier, witnesses said.
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"I said, 'No, I'm your nanny, I can't do this,'" she told Assistant
District Attorney William McCauley, adding that Hernandez told her
he understood and wasn't mad.
Fortier, who previously had traveled to Mexico with Hernandez and
his fiancée and baby, said her friend and Lloyd were asleep on a
couch when she left the bedroom, and that she called a taxi to get
back to Boston.
Under cross-examination by defense attorney Michael Fee, she agreed
acknowledged she kissed Hernandez back before telling him to stop.
Earlier, Fortier testified two men identified as Wallace and Ortiz
came to Hernandez's house around midnight the following night, when
she was babysitting, hours before the murder allegedly took place.
(Editing by Richard Valdmanis, Alan Crosby and Christian Plumb)
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