Report: Aaron Hernandez’s link to 2012 slayings probed by grand jury

Prosecutors in Massachusetts have linked Aaron Hernandez to a double homicide in Boston last July, and are now making the case to a Suffolk County grand jury that the former New England Patriots player should be charged in that shooting, according to a Boston Globe report Wednesday.

Although the Hernandez connection to that slaying was reported weeks ago, the case against him “appears to be strengthening,” an unnamed law enforcement official told BostonGlobe.com.

Hernandez is being held without bail at Bristol County House of Correction, charged with first-degree murder in the June 17 killing of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semipro football player.

Hernandez, who was released by the Patriots less than two hours after he was arrested, has pleaded not guilty to the Lloyd murder charge.

The double homicide took place in Boston’s South End early on July 16, 2012. Safiro Furtado and Daniel Abreu were shot to death when someone in a sport utility vehicle with Rhode Island license plates pulled up next to their car and began firing.

In searching the home of Hernandez’s uncle, investigators found what they believe to be the SUV used in the double killing.

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