The man charged with shooting a one-time associate of Aaron Hernandez outside a Connecticut bar earlier this week has been ordered held on $1 million bond.
According to the Hartford Courant, Leslie Randolph was taken into custody late Tuesday on first-degree assault, criminal use of a firearm and carrying a gun without a permit charges after he opened fire late Sunday, hitting Alexander Bradley with several gunshot blasts outside the Vevo Lounge.
Randolph was also ordered to reappear in Superior Court on March 5. His lawyers argued for a lower bond for him, but prosecutors told the judge he had previous convictions for second-degree threatening, criminal possession of a firearm and possession of narcotics.
The Courant adds police declined to comment on whether they suspect the latest shooting is in anyway connected to the first-degree murder charges Hernandez remains jailed on in connection with the late June killing of Odin Lloyd.
Witnesses told police they overheard Randolph and Bradley arguing over money just before the shooting erupted. After being hit, police said Bradley went to his vehicle and retrieved his own gun and too opened fire. He was arrested at the scene and is now also being held on $1 billion bail.
A former associate of Hernandez, Bradley has also sued the former New England Patriots star charging he shot him in the face outside a Miami nightclub last year causing him to partially lose eyesight.
Later, Bradley's attorney told the judge his client has been "targeted in social situations" due to his connections to Hernandez. "It's happened before, and it's happening here," Robert Pickering said of his clients.
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