Aaron Hernandez Murder Trial News Update: Housekeepers Saw 2 Guns in the Ex-NFL Player's Home, Jury Shown Video of Fiancee Shayanna Jenkins
The Aaron Hernandez murder trial continued on Monday as two housemaids who used to work for the ex-NFL player testified that they found guns in his home a little more than a month before the 2013 shooting of Odin Lloyd.
Marilia Prinholato and Grazielli Silva were hired to clean the home of the ex-New England Patriots star and were there regularly in the weeks leading up to the alleged murder of Lloyd in June 2013, reports The Huffington Post.
According to prosecutors, 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. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty.
Prinholato said that a "big" gun fell out from under a mattress located in a guest room at Hernandez's home while she was cleaning arond May 7, 2013.
"I took the gun. I looked at the gun, and I put it back," Prinholato said on the witness stand. "It was, like, heavy ... It felt like the magazine was full."
She said she also saw the gun twice in May, but not "after everything happened."
Both Silva and Prinholato said they saw a smaller, silver gun in Hernandez's pants pocket. Silva also said she'd seen a gun in a sock drawer.
Although they did not identify the firearms, they both said neither were automatics and not revolvers.
On Tuesday, one of Hernandez's housekeepers testified that she saw his former fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, leave the house a day after Lloyd's murder with a black trash bag. Prosectuors say that this supports the theory that Jenkins disposed the murder weapon, a .45 caliber, which has never been retrieved.
Barbosa, however, admitted she never saw what was inside the bag while she was being crossed examined, reports ABC News.
During her testimony, prosecutors also played a surveillance video of Jenkins carry carrying a heavy black trash bag out of the former New England Patriot tight end's house, reports the Harford Courant.
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