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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez stands during a bail hearing June 27.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star accused of orchestrating the murder of a friend, slammed the door on police investigators the first time they showed up at his house ? and may have confessed to the killing to an accomplice ? according to various court documents made public Tuesday.
Hernandez never asked the officers whose death they were looking into, and he showed no concern during the encounter on June 17, according to the account, which police provided to a court as they sought a search warrant. It described him as argumentative.
The account said he asked: ?What?s with all the questions??
Hernandez re-emerged minutes later and offered to follow the police to the station and submit to questioning there, the account said.
The documents were released after a motion filed by news organizations.
The papers included a catalog of items seized by police when they searched Hernandez?s home in North Attleborough, Mass. Among other things, they took away clothes, a video surveillance system, three iPads, a hard drive, an iPhone and a BlackBerry.
Hernandez is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Odin Lloyd, an acquaintance whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial pit less than a mile from Hernandez?s home. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors say Hernandez orchestrated the killing and was upset because Lloyd was talking to the wrong people at a Boston nightclub a few days earlier. Relatives of Lloyd say he was dating the sister of Hernandez?s girlfriend.
Police said they found keys to a rental car when they searched Lloyd?s body. A quick check found it was rented in Hernandez?s name, and they drove to Hernandez?s house, the account said.
Hernandez walked outside and said he had seen the police on his surveillance system. When they asked about the rental car, Hernandez answered that he had rented it for ?O,? which he then said was ?Odin,? according to the account.
He was asked when he last saw Lloyd and said it had been the day before. That was when Hernandez became argumentative, went inside, got his lawyer?s business card and gave it to the officers, the account said.
Then police told him it was a death investigation, and he slammed the door, the account said.
After police started questioning Hernandez, they told his girlfriend that they were investigating Lloyd?s death, and she began to cry, the police account said. She later told police that she was not very familiar with Lloyd, it said.
Two other men, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, have been charged in the killing. Prosecutors say the men were with Hernandez when Lloyd was killed, but prosecutors have not said who they believe fired the fatal shot.
Wallace, charged as an accessory to murder, pleaded not guilty on Monday and was ordered held without bail. Ortiz, who faces a gun charge, has agreed to remain in jail until his next hearing, and a not guilty plea has been entered on his behalf.
Ortiz reportedly told Massachusetts investigators that Wallace, said Hernandez admitted shooting Lloyd, according to an affidavit filed Tuesday in support of a request to search the Miramar, Florida residence where Wallace was staying.
The Florida documents also say that while investigating Lloyd's killing, police did searches in Bristol, Conn., that turned up a vehicle wanted in connection with a July 2012 double homicide in Boston. Police say the vehicle had been rented in the name of Hernandez.
Hernandez was dropped by the New England Patriots the day he was arrested. The team?s owner, Robert Kraft, said Monday that if the charges are true, the organization has been ?duped.? The team drafted him in 2010 and gave him a $40 million contract extension last year.
Hernandez is also being examined for any links to an unsolved double killing in Boston last July, sources have told NBC News. He is also the subject of a lawsuit filed by a friend who said the football player shot him in the face in February during an altercation in Florida. No criminal charges have been filed in that incident.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Tue Jul 9, 2013 11:11 PM EDT
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