Talk about a smoking gun!
A photograph of Aaron Hernandez holding a Glock handgun in a selfie emerged on TMZ yesterday…four years before he was charged with murder.
TMZ has obtained this photo … showing a 19-year-old Aaron brandishing a Glock handgun for a selfie iPhone pic. You can see a magazine inserted into the gun, but it’s unclear if it was loaded.
We’ve learned the pic was taken in Gainesville, Florida in 2009 … the same time Hernandez was playing football for the University of Florida.
It’s not clear if the Glock in the photograph was used in the crime, and it’s probably unlikely, but it does give insight into Hernandez’s wild and bizarre gun-toting world.
Prosecutors say that it was a text message from victim Odin Lloyd, the man who Aaron Hernandez is charged with murdering, that gave police the last piece of the puzzle they needed to arrest him yesterday.
Lloyd was a semi-professional football player for the Boston Banditz and had known Hernandez for about a year. He was also dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee.
On June 14, Hernandez and Lloyd went out to the bar and Hernandez became angry when he noticed that Lloyd was talking to “the wrong people.” Early in the morning of June 17, Hernandez and two of his friends went to Lloyd’s home and picked him up at 2:32 a.m for a night out.
Lloyd must have known something was up, because when he was in Hernandez’s car, he texted his sister:
“Did you see who I was with?” said the first, at 3:07 a.m. “Who?” she finally replied. “NFL,” he texted back, then added: “Just so you know.”
Surveillance cameras then show Hernandez getting out of his car at the industrial park where Lloyd’s body was found. He allegedly shot Lloyd once in the chest with a .45-caliber pistol, sending him falling to the ground. And as Lloyd was trying to shield himself, Hernandez shot him four more times in the chest.
This is not the first time Hernandez has had a run-in with the law. He is also being sued by a man for shooting him in the face back in February at a Florida strip club.
When Hernandez was a teenager, he was in gang and had a number of guns in college. He felt his former gang members were mad at him for abandoning them and felt he needed this protection. The above picture shows him at 19-years-old, posing with one of his guns in the mirror.
If convicted, Hernandez could face life in jail with possibility of parole.
SOURCE: DAILYMAIL UK, ABC NEWS and TMZ
