article_snippet.sent: (CNN)If one is to believe lawyers for Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star had no conceivable reason to kill a man who was his friend, his future brother-in-law and a reliable purveyor of the marijuana he chain-smoked.
article_snippet.sent: The way defense lawyer James Sultan laid it out for the Massachusetts jury in closing arguments earlier Tuesday, why would a young man with a $40 million contract kill semi-pro player Odin Lloyd less than a mile from defense lawyer James Sultan own home?
article_snippet.sent: Why would Hernandez leave a marijuana blunt
article_snippet.sent: The motive for the killing has never been clearly spelled out, but prosecutors said Lloyd might have done or said something that didn't sit well with Hernandez.
article_snippet.sent: prosecutors said Hernandez rounded up some friends and orchestrated the killing to settle the score.
article_snippet.sent: Hernandez could be seen on camera pulling into Hernandez
article_snippet.sent: driveway minutes after Lloyd was shot to death in the industrial park, which is about a mile from Hernandez's home.
article_snippet.sent: The video is time-stamped minutes after nearby workers described hearing noise nearby workers said sounded like fireworks -- the moment prosecutors say Lloyd was gunned down after getting out of a car Hernandez was driving.
article_snippet.sent: Evidence collected in Lloyd death investigation led to two more murder charges against Hernandez in a separate case in Boston.
article_snippet.sent: Hernandez is also accused of shooting Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, allegedly over a spilled drink at a nightclub.
article_snippet.sent: That double shooting took place in July 2012, almost a year before Lloyd was killed.
article_snippet.sent: Hernandez will be tried in a separate case in Boston after the Lloyd trial.
highlights_snippet.sent: Hernandez is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Odin Lloyd .