Hernandez Being Investigated In Unsolved 2012 Double Murder
MyFoxBoston.com is reporting that investigators are looking into Aaron Hernandez in connection to a double homicide that happened on July 16, 2012 in downtown Boston.
According to the Boston Police blog from that date, officers responded to the intersection of Shawmut Avenue and Herald Street just after 2 a.m. When they arrived, they found three people had been shot, two fatally, as they sat in a car at a traffic light.
The men were identified as Safiro Furtado and Daniel Abreu. The FOX 25 source said the men, who worked at a cleaning company in Dorchester, had just left a bar in the area.
Furtado and Abreu were sitting in the front seat of the vehicle when witnesses said the occupants of a gray or silver SUV with Rhode Island plates opened fire on it. The surviving victim was in the back seat. Investigators believed two others in the car fled the scene.
The source said that investigators were looking into Aaron Hernandez in connection to the killing.
On Wednesday, Hernandez was charged with murder in the death of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, of Dorchester.
An investigation is ongoing.
I don’t know how much evidence is actually linked to Hernandez in this killing besides the Rhode Island license plate. I imagine that it’s standard police procedure to look at the evidence surrounding any arrested suspect with evidence from previous unsolved crimes.
Update: 12:51pm — It looks like there is a little more evidence than we originally thought. From the Boston Globe:
Investigators believe a fight broke out at Cure, a club in the South End, between two men and a group that included Hernandez.
The men who were with them survived the attack and the killings were left unsolved.
The officials said investigators now believe that Odin Lloyd, the man Hernandez is charged with killing in a North Attleboro industrial park June 17, may have had information about Hernandez’s role in the double slaying.
“The motive might have been that the victim knew [Hernandez] might have been involved,” one of the officials said.
Authorities never found the SUV tied to the shooting.
