The Aaron Hernandez murder trial continued on Friday as jurors watched surveillance footage of the murder victim getting into a car that prosecutors say escorted him to his death.

The footage, which was recorded by cameras set up by Lloyd's neighbor, Jose Lopez, shows Lloyd getting into a silver car at 2:33 a.m. on June 17, 2013, reports The Boston Herald.

Prosecutors argue that Hernandez and the two co-defendants, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, picked Lloyd up in a rented Nissan Altima and then drove him "to a secluded, isolated area in North Attleborough," said Bristol County prosecutor Patrick Bomberg, according to The Boston Globe. "There Odin Lloyd was shot 6 times. He was killed, and he was left in a secluded area," he said.

Lopez, who lived across the street from Lloyd's home, said he and Lloyd shared a "neighborly relationship." He identified Lloyd as the person in the video based "on the way he walked."

Massachusetts Police Sergeant Paul Baker also testified on Friday that he collected a piece of chewed gum and bullet shell casing from a garbage dumpster, reports ABC News. According to prosecutors, these pieces of evidence tie the former NFL star to the murder. However, the defense team claims that the evidence was mishandled by police, which caused DNA contamination on the gum that allegedly belonged to Hernandez.

Sgt. Baker told the jury that the items he recovered were removed and photographed as evidence. The gum and shell casing had originally been thrown out by a National Rent-a-Car employee in North Attleboro who had cleaned up the vehicle Hernandez was driving around the time of Lloyd's murder.

During his cross-examination, defense attorney James Sultan grilled Baker on why the items collected from the trash were not immediately placed in an evidence bag.

Part of the defense argument is that Hernandez is being targeted for his celebrity status. Hernandez's lawyers have also pointed out that the suspect and the victim were friends and that any evidence that Hernandez was at the murder scene is not proof that he killed, conspired to kill or wanted to kill him.

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