An employee of firearms manufacturer Glock took the stand in former New England Patriots star tight end Aaron Hernandez's murder trial on Wednesday, testifying that surveillance footage shows Hernandez holding a gun minutes after his friend Odin Lloyd was shot to death.

Hernandez is currently on trial for the murder of the 27-year-old semi-professional football player, who was dating his fiancée's sister at the time of his death.

According to Bristol County Prosecutor Patrick Bomberg, Hernandez and his two friends picked Lloyd up in a rented Nissan Altima in the early morning hours of June 17, 2013 and then drove him "to a secluded, isolated area in North Attleborough," Massachusetts. That's where "Odin Lloyd was shot six times. He was killed," said Bomber, reports The Boston Globe. Police identified the murder weapon as a .45 caliber Glock, but it was never recovered.

On the other hand, lawyers representing Hernandez argue the athlete is innocent and being targeted due to his celebrity status.

On Wednesday, Glock employee Kyle Aspinwall stated that Hernandez was holding a Glock in his left hand in a home surveillance video that was recorded about 10 minutes after Lloyd was killed at an industrial park near Hernandez's home, reports The Associated Press.

Aspinwall said that Hernandez was holding the weapon by the barrel in addition to pointing out different parts of the weapon.

A security chief at a Boston hotel named Jeffrey Keane also gave testimony on Wednesday, stating that a valet told him two nights before the killing that Hernandez might have a gun in his waistband. However, Keane said that he thought Hernandez probably did not have a gun underneath his tight-fitting clothing and that he did not pose a threat.

On the contrary, a parking employee at the hotel testified Tuesday that he saw a gun in Hernandez's waistband when he lifted up his shirt in the early-morning hours of June 15, 2013.

"It looked like a semiautomatic gun," said Samson Michael, the former account manager at the W Hotel's parking service, according to The Boston Globe. Michael said he spotted the gun after the ex-NFL player got into a black Chevy Suburban around 2 a.m. That's when Michael said he saw it through the passenger-side window into the SUV outside of the W Hotel.

During cross-examination, defense attorney Michael Fee suggested that Michael's view that night was hampered by streetlights and the SUV's tinted windows. Michael, however, countered that his view was clear.

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