State police in Connecticut are ending their gun search at a Bristol pond empty-handed, as a seven-day exercise failed to turn up the .45 caliber Glock authorities believe was used to kill 27-year-old semipro football player Odin Lloyd.
Lloyd’s bullet-riddled body was found not far from Hernandez’s North Attleborough mansion on the morning of June 17th and the 23-year old disgraced NFL star was soon charged with first degree murder in connection with the crime. He remains jailed without bond.
According to USA Today Sports, police theorized the weapon could have been discarded in the pond by alleged co-conspirator Ernest Wallace, who also remains jailed on accessory after the fact charges.
In recent days investigators have also turned their attention to Shayanna Jenkins, Hernandez’s fiancée and the mother of his young child. Court documents reveal that Jenkins is captured on surveillance video carrying a bag, believed to contain a gun box from the house she shared with Hernandez and placing it in the trunk of a car, which she then drove away. When she returned less than an hour later, police said, the box was missing.
Carlos Ortiz, another Hernandez associate, has previously told police he was with all three men on the night Lloyd was killed and saw Hernandez placing two guns in a box in his basement after the shooting.
USA Today reports the lake and pond searched by investigators is roughly two miles from the home of Hernandez's uncle, where Wallace and Ortiz have previously resided. Police have searched that home on several occasions, recovering from garage a folder and an SUV, rented in Hernandez's name, that could be connected to an unrelated 2012 double homicide in Boston.
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