Police end search for gun used in Odin Lloyd Murder

Police in Bristol Ct. have spent the past few weeks searching a pond where they believed they would find evidence linking former Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez to the murder of Odin Lloyd, including a possible murder weapon. But that search has now ended according to authorities, and no further dives are currently planned. The reason for searching the pond was because Carlos Ortiz, who was arrested as an accomplice, had this to say according to NBC Sports:

Ortiz told investigators that Hernandez put two guns in a box in his basement after the shooting and court documents allege that Hernandez’s fiancee Shayanna Jenkins was seen on surveillance video leaving the house with a box and placing it in the trunk of her car. She returned less than an hour later without the box, which wasn’t enough time for her to drive to Bristol and back which make is unclear what evidence led authorities to believe that the weapon may have been disposed of in those waters.

With this development in the case, and the lack of a weapon, the prosecution is going to get close to needing another source for evidence. Granted they have surveillance, but a murder weapon is going to play a major role in the case. As for that weapon, there is a lot of possibilities of where it could be, its just a matter of finding it...

- Joshua Powers
@jmano33