Shayana Jenkins wept when told Odin Lloyd was murdered while Aaron Hernandez was hostile to police
ATTLEBORO — Shayanna Jenkins broke into tears when she was told that Odin L. Lloyd had been murdered, but her boyfriend Aaron Hernandez slammed the door in the face of police - and never asked them whose death they were investigating, according to court records released this afternoon.
“Mr. Hernandez did not ask officers whose death was being investigated,” police wrote in one of several reports unsealed in Attleboro District Court today. “Mr. Hernandez’s demeanor did not indicate any concern for the death of any person.”
The records total 156 pages and summarize the investigation into the death of Lloyd, whose body was found in an industrial park in North Attleborough on June 17, leading up to the arrest of Hernandez on June 26 for allegedly orchestrating Lloyd’s murder.
The interplay between Jenkins and police came to an abrupt end when Hernandez called her on her cell phone and told her his “sports agent said she should not speak with police’’ without a lawyer present, according to one of the unsealed documents.
Jenkins told police that Lloyd, who had been dating her sister, was a marijuana dealer whose phone rang constantly and that she often overheard him speaking in a “lingo’’ that she interpreted as code words for marijuana transactions.
Just hours after Lloyd’s body was found, State and North Attleborough police questioned Hernandez outside his home on Ronald C. Meyer Drive in North Attleborough around 10:30 p.m. on June 17.
He told investigators that he last saw Lloyd on June 16 “up his way’’ in Boston, according to the report. Hernandez quickly turned hostile toward detectives, police said in the report.
“What’s with all the questions?” Hernandez asked police.
He then said he needed to speak with an attorney and walked back into his house, retrieved his lawyer’s business card and handed it to the detectives standing at his front door. The detectives told Hernandez they were investigating a death, but he responded by slamming the door, and locking it, police said.
During his arraignment on murder charges, Bristol County prosecutors alleged that Hernandez and two other men were captured on surveillance cameras picking up Lloyd at his Fayston Street home in Dorchester around 2:32 a.m. on June 17.
On Lloyd’s body, police found his wallet, two sets of keys for a black Chevy Suburban, a cell phone and $64.75 in cash.
Police said that after Lloyd’s murder, they checked the Dorchester man’s cellphone and discovered a series of text messages between Hernandez and Lloyd that began at 9:05 p.m. on June 16.
“I’m coming to grab that tonight u gon b around i need dat and we could step for a little again,’’ Hernandez wrote to Lloyd.
The two had a total of five contacts with each other before Lloyd’s last message to Hernandez, which he sent around 12:22 a.m.
“We still on.’’
Jenkins also told police about the surveillance system they had recently installed in their home following a series of housebreaks. Police obtained some of those recordings from June 16 and 17 including an image taken at 3:33 a.m. on June 17 that shows Hernandez is back home standing at the entrance of his basement, moving what looks like a gun from hand to hand.
Employees of a business not far from murder scene were on a break between 3 and 3:30 when they hear several gunshots.
In an inventory of items seized from Hernandez’s home during the multiple searches they conducted between June 17 and June 26, police said they seized a Blackberry phone, three Apple iPads, an Apple iPhone, a pair of white Nike sneakers sized 13, a long sleeve white shirt, jeans and a bath towel.
Police also seized a safe they discovered held .22 caliber ammunition, a scale and a dish, a black duffel bag holding some bandages, a watch and a white plastic bag holding grey jeans and grey sweats.
Police also said they tested a mattress and a piece of the bed skirt from that mattress for the presence of gunshot residue.
Earlier today, a court hearing for an associate Hernandez was abruptly called off today by the attorney for Carlos Ortiz and by Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter’s office.
In a brief hearing in Attleboro District Court, John Connors, the attorney for Ortiz, 27, of Bristol, Conn., and Sutter’s office agreed to continue the dangerousness hearing until Aug. 14.
Ortiz is currently charged only with unlawful possession of a firearm, stemming from his own statements to police and video surveillance that allegedly shows him walking into Hernandez’s North Attleborough home with a gun in his hand around 3:30 a.m. on June 17.
Lloyd, 27, was allegedly shot and killed about 15 minutes earlier in a North Attleborough industrial park. Sutter has said Lloyd was picked up at his Fayston Street home in Dorchester by Hernandez, Ortiz, and a third man, Ernest Wallace, and then driven to North Attleborough where he was murdered.
Speaking to reporters after the hearing, Connors said that his client is not cooperating against Hernandez, whom Bristol County prosecutors allege orchestrated the murder of the 27-year-old Lloyd because the former New England Patriot felt he could no longer trust him.
“I don’t believe anything that comes out like that,’’ Connors said. “He’s been talking to me. At this point he’s charged with carrying a gun, that’s all he’s been charged with.”
Although Ortiz is facing prosecution in Bristol County, he is currently being housed at the Norfolk County Jail in Dedham, officials said today.
Connors didn’t specify how his client knows Hernandez, other than to say that the two are from Bristol, Conn., and that his client is “an athletic young man.”
“He’s not at all, as far as I can see, a violent person,” Connors said of Ortiz.
Connors, who has been appointed to represent the indigent Ortiz, said he isn’t fighting for bail for his client because Ortiz would not be able to post any amount.
“If they held him on ten thousand or twenty thousand, he still couldn’t make the bail,” he said.
Sutter spokesman Gregg Miliotte said the gun charge filed against Ortiz warranted the request for a dangerousness hearing and to have Ortiz held without bail. “I wouldn’t call it minor, it’s a gun possession charge, a serious charge,’’ Miliote said.
Connors questioned why his client — and the murder of Lloyd — was getting so much attention in the media.
“If you look at Rhode Island, Providence, in six months ten people murdered, I don’t think I’ve seen one camera out there,’’ Connors said. “Because of the fact that one of the them is an NFL player here, you have cameras everywhere.”
Only Hernandez has been charged with murder and the former New England Patriots player is currently being held without bail after pleading not guilty to all charges. Wallace, on Monday, pleaded not guilty to accessory after the fact of murder and is being held without bail.
While the Ortiz hearing was uneventful, later today the search warrants that allowed State Police and North Attleborough police to search Hernandez’s North Attleborough home and other sites linked to Lloyd’s killing are expected to be unsealed, a move taken at request of several media organizations, including The Boston Globe.
Wallace is scheduled to be back in court July 22 for a status hearing.
Ortiz and Wallace both have pleaded not guilty to all charges and have not been charged with murdering Lloyd.
Hernandez has a July 24 probable cause hearing.