Valet Manager Says He Saw Hernandez With Gun Days Before Lloyd Murder
BOSTON (CBS) – The manager of a Boston valet service says he saw Aaron Hernandez with a gun tucked in his waistband days before the murder of Odin Lloyd.
"Looked like a semi-automatic gun," said Michael Sampson on the witness stand in Hernandez's murder trial Tuesday.
Sampson's company parked Hernandez's car in Boston theater district when he spent a night out clubbing with friends, including Lloyd.
Hernandez returned and asked for his car keys, so he could get to his cell phone. That's when Sampson says Hernandez inadvertently lifted his shirt, revealing the gun.
As that night turned to morning, Hernandez and Lloyd ended up in the Franklin apartment prosecutors have called a "flop house." Hernandez called it "the spot."
They brought two women, including his babysitter, who testified Monday. Hernandez used Lloyd's phone to text his fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins in the morning.
"O took care of me an somehow tol him bout my other spot and I jus woke up buggin I'm sorry and on the way home," texted to Jenkins.
Two days later, Lloyd was murdered.
After that, another text from Hernandez to Jenkins.
"Go in the back of the screen in movie room when u get home an there is the box avielle likes to play with in the tub," testimony shows.
Avielle is the couple's baby daughter, but prosecutors suggest Hernandez was giving Jenkins a directive to move the weapon.
Two weeks ago, jurors saw surveillance video of Jenkins struggling to carry a trash bag out of the couple's home, with a clear outline of a box inside the bag.