Aaron Hernandez associate Carlos Ortiz is set to be on arraigned on murder charges in connection with the killing of Odin Lloyd later this month, according to the Boston Herald.
The 27-year-old Ortiz was formally indicted last month and is currently being held on $500,000 bail along with fellow alleged co-conspirator Ernest Wallace. Ortiz next scheduled court appearance is slated for May 27.
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Police maintain the 24-year-old Hernandez orchestrated the killing after the former NFL star became angry over Lloyd talking with other people Hernandez considered his enemies, and his growing concern about Lloyd's knowledge of other violent crimes the former NFL star is alleged to have been involved in. Just days before Lloyd's June 17, 2013 slaying, police add the two men bickered at a Boston nightclub.
On the night of the killing, investigators insist the former New England Patriots tight end summoned both Ortiz and Wallace to accompany him as he picked up Lloyd in nearby Dorchester. Video surveillance since retrieved by police of that night later shows the three men leaving an industrial park where Lloyd's bullet-riddled body was later found.
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Hernandez remains jailed without bail at the Bristol County House of Corrections and has pleaded not guilty. Just last week, he was indicted for threatening to kill a guard and his family as well as on charges of attacking a fellow inmate.
Hernandez is also at the center of an ongoing, unsolved investigation where two men were killed in a 2012 drive-by shooting in downtown Boston.
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