Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, already charged with murder in connection with the death of Odin Lloyd in 2013, has even more legal issues. Hernandez has been indicted and charged with first-degree murder in the 2012 deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. A third man was wounded in that attack.
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced the indictment today. De Abreu and Furtado were shot to death while stopped at a traffic light on July 16, 2012, by someone who drove up alongside them in an SUV with Rhode Island plates and opened fire.
Conley had no comment on whether there was a connection between the double slaying in Boston and the slaying in North Atleborough.
Conley said that after a “chance encounter” between Hernandez, Abreu, and Furtado at a Boston nightclub, Hernandez trailed the men in his car.
“Aaron Hernandez fired a .38-calibre revolver multiple times from the driver’s side of his vehicle into the passenger’s side of the victim’s vehicle,” killing de Abreu and Furtado, Conley said.
Conley also said that investigators had been able to recover the car Hernandez was driving and the murder weapon.
“For us, this case was never about Aaron Hernandez. This case was about two victims, who were stalked, ambushed, and senselessly murdered on the streets of the city they called home,” said Conley.
Conley said no more information would be available about the encounter at the nightclub until he is arraigned. Conley’s office said that would happen next week at the earliest.
“This was a chance encounter where two young men were out … and basically had an encounter that led to their deaths,” said Police Commissioner William Evans. “I remember going to the scene that morning. … It was a terrible tragedy.”
On the victims, Conley said, ““Neither of them were involved in gangs, guns, or violent crime of any kind.”
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