Aaron Hernandez charged with murder of Odin Lloyd

[Jazzy]

New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested and charged Wednesday with murdering a friend a few days after they got into a dispute at a nightclub.

Hernandez was taken from his home in handcuffs Wednesday morning, more than a week after Boston semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd's bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez's home. Soon after his arrest, the Patriots announced they had cut Hernandez from the team.

Lloyd was a 27-year-old semi-pro football player for the Boston Bandits. His relatives said he was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, that the two men were friends and that the men were out together on the last night of Lloyd's life. He was shot multiple times in the back and chest, authorities said.

Hernandez was charged with murder and weapons counts.

Hernandez and two friends picked up Lloyd at home at 2:30 a.m. on June 17, Assistant District Attorney Bill McCauley said. Surveillance footage from Hernandez's home shows him leaving earlier with a gun, McCauley said. He also told someone in the house that he was upset and couldn't trust anyone anymore, the prosecutor said.

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Do you think the Patriots should have cut him from the team? Why/why not?

 

[The Dragon Master]

They should have kept the position for him and just replaced him until the outcome of the trial. It might turn out that he's not guilty and they'll be kicking themselves.

 

[Jazzy]

I agree. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

 

[Fatal Dawn]

The case against him was already looking bad so I actually agree with the Pats decision to release him. Also CytoSport had severed ties with him during the investigation too.