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Warrants unsealed: Hernandez slammed door on investigators

A number of new details about the investigation of the murder case involving former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez were revealed on Tuesday afternoon when eight search warrants were unsealed at the media’s request. A judge had agreed to the requests the previous day.

Among 156 pages of documents, detailing the investigation into the death of Odin L. Lloyd, is that Hernandez was “argumentative” with police, asked “what’s with all the questions?” and slammed his front door on police and locked it after being told they were investigating a death.

“Mr. Hernandez did not ask officers whose death was being investigated,” police wrote in one of the reports, also noting that Hernandez came out 10 minutes later and agreed to be questioned at a police station. “Mr. Hernandez’s demeanor did not indicate any concern for the death of any person.”

Police first sought out Hernandez after finding rental keys in Lloyd’s pocket to a car that was reserved in Hernandez’s name. Police also found a cell phone that contained a text from Hernandez on the morning of his death that said, “We still on”, with Lloyd’s last text sent to his sister saying, “NFL”. Police even called a number in Lloyd’s phone to confirm it was Hernandez, which the former tight end received while in a police station.

On June 17, when police first questioned Hernandez, he told them Lloyd had been “up his way yesterday” when asked when he last saw the victim.

Hernandez’s fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, told police that Lloyd was a drug dealer, and while she was talking to police outside the North Attleborough police station, Hernandez called from inside and told her to stop talking to them.

Surveillance video shows three men, thought to be Hernandez, Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace leave Hernandez’s home in a silver Nissan Altima at approximately 1:09 a.m. on June 17, with Hernandez appearing to have been handed “a white rope-like item” from the trunk. Police believe that Wallace was driving, with Hernandez in the front passenger seat.

Police say surveillance video from a camera at a home across the street from Lloyd’s house on Fayston Street in Boston shows Lloyd getting into the car with the three men at 2:33 a.m. and that the car returns to Hernandez’s home at 3:26 a.m, with Hernandez thought to be exiting the driver’s seat. Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz enter the home one minute later and the cameras turned off at 3:40 a.m.

Police determined the probable time of Lloyd’s death after interviewing a witness who was sitting in his car approximately 200 yards from the crime scene and heard three gunshots between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Lloyd’s body was found not far from Hernandez’s home

Police searched Hernandez’s home in North Attleborough and his locker at Gillette Stadium and found, among many items, two cell phones (contradicting previous reports that all of his phones had been destroyed), three iPads, a scale used to weigh drugs and a black duffel bag which held bandages. Police also tested a mattress for the presence of gunshot residue.

Found in the silver Altima returned to an Enterprise Rent-A-Car in North Attleborough, was a .45 caliber shell casing next to a children’s drawing. The manager of the rental location disposed of the items in the car, but police recovered them.

Massachusetts State Police ballistic experts determined that the five .45 caliber casings discovered near Lloyd’s body and the casing found in the rental car were fired from the same unknown .45 caliber handgun. Police found multiple firearms on Hernandez’s property, but have not found the .45 gun used in the murder of Lloyd.