BOSTON - Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two murder charges for allegedly ambushing and gunning down two men in 2012 after a chance encounter inside a Boston nightclub. 
 
 Hernandez, 24, is already facing charges in the 2013 murder of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. 
 
 The former football star was arraigned on charges stemming from the 2012 murders of Daniel de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Furtado, 28, on Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court and ordered held without bail. A third man was also wounded in the 2012 incident. 
 
 A family member of one of the victims sobbed loudly as Hernandez entered his not guilty plea to charges of first-degree murder, armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. 
 
 During the arraignment, prosecutor Patrick Haggan said Hernandez told the court that the victims "had never crossed paths" with Hernandez before running into him while entering Cure Lounge in Boston's Theater District in the early hours of July 16, 2012. 
 
 "In fact, none of the victims recognized the defendant as someone they had seen before, either in person or otherwise," Haggan said. 
 
 The prosecutor said Hernandez and a friend stood at the edge of the dance floor after entering the club that night. 
 
 "Shortly thereafter, Daneil de Abreu, while dancing nearby, accidentally bumped into the defendant, causing the defendant's drink to partially spill. The defendant became angered and increasingly agitated, particularly after Mr. de Abreu smiled and did not apologize," Haggan said, adding that there was no argument or physical confrontation between de Abreu and Hernandez. 
 
 "Neither the victims nor the security staff were aware that the defendant became agitated as a result of the incident," Haggan said. 
 
 However, according to Haggan, Hernandez told his friend that he believed de Abreu deliberately bumped into him and was "trying him." That's when the friend convinced Hernandez to leave Cure Lounge and go to a nightclub across the street. 
 
 Haggan said that Hernandez believed de Abreu followed him to the second nightclub and was targeting and disrespecting him. However, according to Haggan, de Abreu remained at Cure Lounge. 
 
 When de Abreu and Furtado did eventually leave the club, Haggan said Hernandez followed them in an SUV and pulled up alongside them as their vehicle stopped at a red light. 
 
 Haggan said Hernandez leaned out the window and said, "Yo, what's up now?" and then a racial slur, before opening fire. He said Hernandez and a friend then drove off, taking the Massachusetts Turnpike to Hartford, Conn., where they stayed that night. 
 
 According to Haggan, Hernandez told his friend, "I think I got one in the head and one in the chest," as they drove away from the crime scene. 
 
 De Abreu suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the chest and Furtado suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head. A backseat passenger suffered a non-life threatening wound to the arm. Two other passengers escaped uninjured. 
 
 The day after the shooting, Hernandez searched the Internet and watched television to see whether there were any accounts of the deadly shooting, Haggan said. He also allegedly called his cousin, Tanya Singleton, to come and pick up the SUV, which had been loaned to him by a car dealership, and bring a new car for him to use. 
 
 The dealership attempted to track down the car, but according to Haggen, Hernandez ignored their requests to turn the car in. 
 
 On June 28, 2013, investigators found the SUV in Singleton's garage in Bristol, Conn. According to Haggen, the car was covered in cobwebs and had a dead battery. The weapon used in the shootings was also recovered last June from a woman with ties to Hernandez. 
 
 Singleton has since been indicted for criminal contempt of court stemming from her refusal to testify before the grand jury investigating the double murder. 
 
 In January, the Hartford Courant reported that a search warrant indicated that surveillance video showed Hernandez and a man named Alexander Bradley at the same nightclub in Boston as Furtado and de Abreu the night of their killings. 
 
 
 
 Bradley has a civil lawsuit pending against Hernandez, alleging that the former NFL player shot him in the face after they argued outside a Miami nightclub in early 2013. Bradley was jailed last fall after he allegedly avoided authorities who tried to subpoena him to appear before a grand jury probing the 2012 double homicide. 
 
 The search warrant obtained by the Courant sought to access recordings of phone calls Bradley made from prison after a Department of Corrections official told authorities that Bradley was heard discussing details of the Boston double homicide investigation on those calls. 
 
 After Haggan's statement, Hernandez's attorney Charles Rankin complained to Clerk Magistrate Gary Wilson that the jury pool will be tainted by prosecutors laying out the details of the murder case in front of a large group of media. 
 
 Wilson quickly rebuked Rankin, taking exception to his complaint and saying, "We don't operate behind closed doors." 
 
 Hernandez was released by the Patriots last summer after his arrest in Odin Lloyd's shooting death. 
 
 Authorities have not said if they believe there is any connection between the 2012 killings and Lloyd's slaying, although the search warrant obtained by the Courant reportedly indicated the two incidents may have been related. 
 
 Lloyd's body was found in an industrial area near Hernandez's home in North Attleborough. Lloyd was dating a sister of Hernandez's fiancee. 
 
 Hernandez's lawyers have said he is looking forward to proving his innocence. ||||| BOSTON (AP) — A spilled drink prompted former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez to stalk the stranger who had accidentally bumped into him at a Boston nightclub then open fire on his car, killing him and a second man, prosecutors said Wednesday. 
 
 Defense attorney Charlie Rankin responds to the prosecution's summary of facts as former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, left, is arraigned on homicide charges at Suffolk Superior Court... (Associated Press) 
 
 Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez listens to the prosecution's summary of facts as he is arraigned on homicide charges at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, May 28, 2014.... (Associated Press) 
 
 Clerk Magistrate Gary D. Wilson presides as former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is arraigned on homicide charges at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Hernandez... (Associated Press) 
 
 Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, left, and his lawyer Michael Fee second from left, listen to the charges against Hernandez during his arraignment at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston,... (Associated Press) 
 
 People identified by the district attorney as a victim's family members enter the courtroom before the arraignment of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez gets set to sit in the courtroom to be arraigned on homicide charges at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Hernandez pleaded... (Associated Press) 
 
 Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is led into the courtroom to be arraigned on homicide charges at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Hernandez pleaded not... (Associated Press) 
 
 Shayanna Jenkins, fiancee of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, departs Suffolk Superior Court following Hernandez's arraignment on murder charges, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Boston.... (Associated Press) 
 
 People identified by the district attorney as a victim's family members of react as they wait for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez to appear at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Mass.,... (Associated Press) 
 
 People identified by the district attorney as a victim's family members of react as they wait for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez to appear at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Mass.,... (Associated Press) 
 
 "I think I got one in the head and one in the chest," Hernandez said to a friend as they fled the scene in an SUV, prosecutors told the court at the former star's arraignment. 
 
 Hernandez, already charged with killing another man last year, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven charges — including two counts of first-degree murder — in the 2012 shooting that killed Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. A third man was wounded. 
 
 In the months before the killings, Suffolk County First Assistant District Attorney Patrick Haggan said Hernandez had become increasingly convinced that people "had been testing, trying or otherwise disrespecting him when he frequented nightclubs in the area." 
 
 The night de Abreu and Furtado were killed, Haggan said Hernandez and a friend drove from Connecticut to Boston to go to a nightclub called Cure. They were standing at the edge of the dance floor when de Abreu accidentally bumped into Hernandez, smiled at him and did not apologize, according to prosecutors. Haggan said de Abreu and his friends did not appear to recognize Hernandez and had no idea he was upset. 
 
 Hernandez became increasingly agitated and told his friend that de Abreu had deliberately bumped into him and "was trying him," Haggan said. 
 
 Surveillance video outside the club shows Hernandez pacing back and forth on the sidewalk as his friend tried to calm him down, Haggan said. Hernandez and his friend then crossed the street to another nightclub, where Hernandez thought he saw de Abreu and his friends come in, according to Haggan. 
 
 Hernandez then told his friend he believed he was "being targeted and being disrespected," according to Haggan. In fact, de Abreu and his friends had not left the other club. 
 
 Haggan said Hernandez later drove around with his friend until he saw de Abreu, Furtado and others going to their car. He followed them and pulled up alongside their car at a red light. 
 
 "At this time, the victims were completely unaware there was any problem with the defendant," Haggan said. 
 
 Hernandez leaned out the driver's side, said "Yo, what's up now," followed by a racial slur, then fired at least five shots into the car, killing de Abreu and Furtado, and injuring a man sitting in the back seat, Haggan said. 
 
 Hernandez's attorney, Charles Rankin, objected, saying the prosecutor's account of the shooting was an attempt to poison the jury pool. Clerk Magistrate Gary Wilson dismissed the objection, saying it is standard procedure for prosecutors to describe evidence during arraignments in murder cases. 
 
 Family members of the victims filled four rows in the courtroom. One woman sobbed loudly as Hernandez entered his not guilty pleas. 
 
 De Abreu and Furtado were shot about six weeks before Hernandez signed a five-year, $40 million contract with the Patriots. He went on to catch 51 passes and score five touchdowns that season, his last in the NFL. 
 
 Hernandez, 24, was released by the Patriots last summer after he was charged in the June 17 killing of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd, who was dating a sister of Hernandez's fiancee. Lloyd's body was found in an industrial area near Hernandez's home in North Attleborough. 
 
 Hernandez's lawyers have said he is looking forward to proving his innocence. 
 
 Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley would not comment when reporters asked if Lloyd's killing was linked to the earlier killings of de Abreu and Furtado. He said Lloyd was not the friend who was with Hernandez the night the two men were killed. 
 
 Hernandez will continue to be held without bail. He is due back in court June 24 for a scheduling hearing.
– He was a star player on a star NFL team, so what could possibly have turned Aaron Hernandez into a murderer? In laying out their case against Hernandez today in a 2012 drive-by slaying that left two men dead, prosecutors offered this scene from a Boston nightclub: "Shortly thereafter, Daneil de Abreu, while dancing nearby, accidentally bumped into the defendant, causing the defendant's drink to partially spill. The defendant became angered and increasingly agitated, particularly after Mr. de Abreu smiled and did not apologize." Yes, a spilled drink, reports AP and CBS News. Prosecutors say Hernandez and a friend waited for the victims to leave the bar, then pulled up alongside their car. Hernandez allegedly said, "Yo, what's up now," opened fire, and told his friend, "I think I got one in the head and one in the chest" as they sped away. Prosecutors say he was right. Hernandez pleaded not guilty today. He also faces murder charges in the slaying of another man the following year.