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Hernandez in court last year. AP/Press Association Images

Former NFL star Hernandez charged with double murder

The ex-New England Patriot is already awaiting trial for an unrelated fatal shooting.

FORMER NEW ENGLAND Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been charged for a double murder which took place in Boston two years ago.

The victims in that killing, Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, were shot to death as they sat in a car in Boston’s South End on July 16, 2012. Police have said they were shot by someone who drove up alongside in an SUV with Rhode Island license plates and opened fire.

Hernandez was seen on surveillance footage in the same nightclub as the victims the night of the attack, authorities have said. Prosecutors planned a news conference on Thursday to discuss new details in the shooting deaths.

Lawyers for Hernandez, who is awaiting trial in the separate 2013 shooting death near his home of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd in North Attleborough, did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. Hernandez is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to murder in Lloyd’s death.

Boston police wrote in an affidavit last year there is probable cause to believe that Hernandez was driving a vehicle used in the 2012 double shooting and “may have been the shooter.”

The affidavit was filed as police sought to search an SUV involved in the shooting and found at Hernandez’s uncle’s home in Bristol, Connecticut.

The SUV was covered in dust and cobwebs and had a dead battery, leading police to believe it had remained untouched in the garage for close to a year, according to the court document.

Survivor Aquilino Freire told police an SUV pulled up next to them while they were stopped, and he saw someone in the SUV’s back seat laughing, according to the affidavit.

Then, several gunshots were fired from the rear passenger seat into the car, Freire told police. Two other people in the car ran away, Freire said.

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    May 15th 2014, 5:35 PM

    And apparently Michael Sam is going to be the worst thing to happen to the NFL for moral reasons? Hmmmm…

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    May 15th 2014, 5:50 PM

    Much worse than Ben Rothlesberger & Michael Vick!

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    May 15th 2014, 9:39 PM

    Zoë. Who said that about Michael Sam? 2 or 3 tools on twitter is all I’ve seen. The rest don’t seem to care.

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    May 15th 2014, 9:44 PM

    Dog fighting is comparable to murder? Rothlisberger was never charged. This is much worse. Now Ray Lewis on the other hand. There is a crazy stat about the number of NFL players charged with felonies in off season last year. Over 40 I believe.

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    May 15th 2014, 4:57 PM

    He’s boned

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    May 15th 2014, 8:11 PM

    Boned?

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    May 15th 2014, 5:55 PM

    He’ll be disappointed with that.

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    May 15th 2014, 4:58 PM

    Sounds a lot circumstantional – going down theOJ route?

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    Mute Jeremy Usborne
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    May 15th 2014, 5:08 PM

    I don’t think the Chewbacca defence is going to work in this case.

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    May 15th 2014, 10:12 PM

    Hopefully he’ll get the chair.

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    May 15th 2014, 7:25 PM

    Hisnandez was once a great player for the old Scotland patriots

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    Mute adrian quinn
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    May 15th 2014, 9:44 PM

    ????

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    May 15th 2014, 9:53 PM

    NFL = National Football League (American football) for those like me who aren’t the least bit interested in it and havn’t a clue really who hernandez is. Thanks for making me google that journal.ie!

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    May 16th 2014, 8:15 AM

    I don’t think it’s the journals job to spoon feed their readers everything

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    Mute Marie Broomfield
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    May 16th 2014, 1:52 PM

    True but this is not a case of spoonfeeding is it. This is a case of proper use of the english language. Is is normal to first outline what an acronym means before you use it, otherwise, how the hell will anybody know what you are writing about. Readers shouldn’t have to be guessing as they read news information but hey, don’t mind me.

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