The Huffington Post | By Andres Jauregui Email Posted: 04/15/2015 10:49 am EDT
A jury has found Aaron Hernandez guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd.
On Wednesday, Judge E. Susan Garsh sentenced Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end, to life without the possibility of parole for killing Lloyd on June 17, 2013. The sentence was mandatory.
The jury found that the ex-NFL player merited the conviction by “reason of extreme atrocity or cruelty.” From the Boston Globe:
Hernandez, 25, and two accomplices picked up Lloyd, 27, a landscaper who played semiprofessional football, at his home on the pretext that they would party together. Instead they drove through the darkness to an industrial park in North Attleborough near the football player’s spacious home, where Hernandez shot Lloyd several times with a .45-caliber Glock pistol, including two kill shots to Lloyd’s chest as he writhed in pain on the ground.
The jury also convicted Hernandez on weapons and ammunition possession charges.
Hernandez's fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, wept openly in court after hearing the verdict.
In a statement read after the judge handed down the conviction, Ursula Ward, Lloyd's mother, called her son the "backbone" of her family.
"My heart stopped beating [when he died]," Ward said. "I wanted to go into the hole [with Odin]." more
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