Two friends of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez were indicted on murder charges Friday in connection with the 2013 homicide of Odin Lloyd in North Attleboro , Massachusetts , according to the Bristol County District Attorney 's Office . The associates , Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace , allegedly were in the car with Hernandez the night of the murder . Hernandez , 24 , is being held on first-degree murder and weapons charges in the shooting death of Lloyd . He has pleaded not guilty to those charges . Authorities have said Hernandez , Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace picked Lloyd up from his Boston apartment in the early morning of June 17 . Surveillance cameras showed the car at an industrial park near Hernandez 's North Attleborough , Massachusetts , home . Surveillance cameras then captured the rental car leaving the crime scene and Hernandez carrying a gun as he returned to his home minutes later . He was with two other people . Lloyd -- a 27-year-old semi-pro football player himself -- was not among them . Lloyd 's body was found in the industrial park later that day . Prosecutors have accused Hernandez of orchestrating the death of Lloyd , who was shot five times with a .45 caliber handgun . Ortiz and Wallace were already being held on charges related to the Lloyd murder when the indictments were handed down Friday . `` Ernest Wallace did not shoot or kill anybody , '' his attorney , David Meier of Boston , told CNN . `` The nature and timing of these new charges against Mr. Wallace speak for themselves . One can only ask are these charges based on the facts and the law or something else . Mr. Wallace looks forward to confronting his accusers in the courtroom , '' Meier said . Ortiz , 27 , of Bristol , Connecticut , had been indicted in September on a single count of accessory to murder after the fact in connection with Lloyd 's death . Ortiz 's attorney , John Connors , told CNN that he heard about the indictment not from the district attorney , but from the news media . `` I was a bit shocked , '' Connors said . `` I knew the matter had come up before a second grand jury ... but , to my knowledge , there 's been no new discovery ... no new information . '' `` First , they charged him with being an accessory ... and now , all of a sudden they indict him for murder , '' Conners added . Maybe , it 's political . '' Asked to elaborate , he said , `` Maybe you should ask the DA . '' Wallace , who also was indicted last fall on an accessory-after-the-fact-to-murder charge , had turned himself in to police in Miramar , Florida , at his family 's home more than a week later after taking a bus to Florida from Georgia . In addition , Hernandez 's fiancee , Shayanna Jenkins , 24 , was charged in September with a single count of perjury and his cousin , Tanya Singleton , 37 , was charged with `` conspiracy to commit accessory after the fact . '' Singleton , who was already being held on a previous indictment for contempt of court by allegedly refusing to testify before a grand jury , saw both of the cases against her combined . Photos : 8 athletes charged with murder .
`` Ernest Wallace did not shoot or kill anybody , '' defendant 's attorney says . Another defense attorney says he heard about indictment of his client from news media . Associates of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez are indicted in a June slaying in Massachusetts . Comment: