Aaron Hernandez Accomplice Pleads Guilty To Helping Kill Odin Lloyd

• By Alison Bauter and Dan Libon

Carlos Ortiz pleaded guilty Monday to assisting former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez in the murder of Odin Lloyd.

The accomplice to Hernandez was in Bristol Superior Court in Fall River Monday afternoon for a change of plea hearing. He was sentenced to 4.5-7 years in prison, according to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn III.

Aaron Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder in April 2015.

During the court case, prosecutors said that Hernandez killed 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of his fiancée’s sister, after seeing him at a Boston nightclub with people Hernandez may have had past issues with.According to the testimony, on June 16, Hernandez asked Ortiz and Ernest Wallace to come to his North Attleboro home.

Hernandez, Ortiz, and Lloyd then left North Attleboro in a rented Nissan at 1:12 a.m. on June 17, eventually arriving at Lloyd’s Dorchester home. At 2:33 a.m., the vehicle arrived at Lloyd’s home where he entered the vehicle. The car proceeded towards I-90, skipping a toll booth at the I-95 interchange west of Boston. By 2:23 a.m., the vehicle entered an industrial park in North Attleboro.

Shortly, later, three gunshots and a car door slamming could be heard by an employee of a nearby business. Two other employees also said they heard bangs which they assumed to be fireworks at the time.At 3:30 a.m., the vehicle returned to Hernandez’s home with the three men.

The trial for Wallace, also accused as an accomplice, began last month.

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