A man who survived a deadly 2012 drive-by shooting in Boston identified former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez in court on Tuesday as the one who pulled the trigger.
(FOX)- The judge presiding over the upcoming murder trial also denied a bid by Hernandez’s lawyer to push back the February start.
Prosecutors asked Raychides Sanches during Tuesday’s pretrial hearing to describe the chaotic scene the night of July 16, 2012.
Sanches said he had been a passenger in a car stopped at a light in the city’s South End when an SUV pulled up. He said someone from the SUV said “What’s up, negroes?” and then gunfire erupted.
Sanches said bullets struck 29-year-old Daniel de Abreu and 28-year-old Safiro Furtado.
When asked who the shooter was, Sanches nodded in the direction of Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, the Boston Herald reported.
“Looked like him,” he said. “Hernandez.”
Another survivor of the shooting, Aquilino Freire, told the court he was shot twice and described the shooter as light skinned, with no beard but tattoos.