AARON HERNANDEZ MAY BE CONNECTED TO DOUBLE HOMICIDE IN BOSTON

AARON HERNANDEZ

Jailed football star Aaron Hernandez is being eyed for a 2012 double homicide, as prosecutors charge him in last week’s slaying of a friend — zeroing in on a piece of gum discarded at the scene, according to broadcast reports today.
Also this morning, the Hartford Courant reported that Carlos Ortiz, who lives in Hernandez’s hometown of Bristol, Conn., was arrested in connection to the football star’s murder probe.
The Pro Bowl tight end was picked up yesterday and charged with the slaying 27-year-old Odin Lloyd last week in North Attleboro, Mass.
The night before Lloyd’s murder, Hernandez frantically texted an unidentified Connecticut friend to rush to him in Massachusetts, prosecutors said.
Two other men were allegedly with Hernandez during Lloyd’s killing. But prosecutors didn’t mention who these men were, or if they had been arrested, when Hernandez was arraigned yesterday afternoon.
Hernandez could be facing new problems stemming from the murder of two Boston men.
Safiro Furtado and Daniel Abreu, who worked at nearby cleaning company in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, had just left a local bar on July 16, 2012. That’s when a gray or silver SUV with Rhode Island plates rolled up to the victims’ car and opened fire.
Investigators now want to know if Hernandez has any connection to that 2 a.m. double-slaying at the corner of Shawmut Avenue and Herald Street, Boston Fox affiliate WFXT-TV reported today.
No arrests have been made in that double homicide.
Hernandez was busted yesterday morning and charged with murder and five firearms offenses tied to Lloyd’s June 17 murder.
Before Hernandez picked up Lloyd, the Pro Bowl tight end stopped at gas station where he also picked up cigarette rolling paper and blue cotton candy-flavored Bubblicious bubble gum, prosecutors said.
When Hernandez dropped off a rental car allegedly used in the murder, he offered the attendant a piece of blue bubble gum, according to the DA.
The attendant found a .45-caliber shell casing and a piece of chewed blue bubble gum inside the car, authorities said.
Odin was killed by bullets fired from a .45-caliber gun.