Carlos Ortiz, 30, yesterday pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact for helping Hernandez after he gunned down Lloyd on June 17, 2013.
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The last co-defendant of former National Football League player Aaron Hernandez was sentenced Monday for his role in the 2013 death of Odin Lloyd, Massachusetts prosecutors said. Hernandez’s other accomplice, Ernest Wallace, was found guilty of the same charge earlier this year and received the same sentence. He entered his guilty plea to the accessory charge in Bristol (Mass.) Superior Court, and now faces 4 1/2 to seven years in prison.
Lloyd’s body was found in an industrial park a short distance from Hernandez’s North Attleboro home in 2013.
Hernandez was convicted in MA a year ago of killing Odin Lloyd, who was dating his fiance’s sister. He has pleaded not guilty to a 2012 double murder in Boston, and is also facing multiple civil lawsuits.
The exact motive for the murder remains unclear.
Ortiz has already served three years of his sentence and will be eligible for parole in a year and a half, according to Connors.
“When we got to the spot, the only two people that got out of the auto was Aaron Hernandez and Odin Lloyd”, Ortiz said yesterday at Bristol Superior Court, adding that he heard a gunshot soon after. “The evidence established much less of a connection between Ortiz and Hernandez”.
Hours after the murder, the same surveillance video showed the three friends sunbathing by the pool and drinking smoothies.
“I hope and pray one day they will be able to forgive themselves for taking the love of my life away”, she said.
Hernandez is awaiting trial in Boston for the murders of Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado.
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“The only one person that came in was Aaron Hernandez, ” he said.
