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Witness: Hernandez holds gun on video minutes after killing

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By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) _ Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez can be seen on surveillance video walking through his home with a gun less than 10 minutes after prosecutors say he killed a man, according to testimony Wednesday by an employee of firearms manufacturer Glock. It was the most conclusive testimony to date in the monthlong trial that puts a weapon in Hernandez’s hand around the time of the slaying. Hernandez is charged with murder in the killing of Odin Lloyd, who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee. Lloyd was shot to death early on June 17, 2013, in an industrial park near Hernandez’s home in North Attleborough. Lloyd sent his last text message at 3:23 a.m., and two witnesses have testified they heard loud bangs around that time. The murder weapon has never been found. Kyle Aspinwall, a former New Hampshire police chief who now works for Glock, began his testimony Wednesday by showing jurors a Glock 21. The semiautomatic handgun uses .45-caliber bullets, and prosecutors have argued that based on ballistics evidence, a Glock 21 was the murder weapon. As Aspinwall testified, prosecutor Patrick Bomberg played clips of video […]

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