Written by Joshua Rhett Miller at New York Daily Post.com
An admitted drug dealer who bonded with former NFL star Aaron Hernandez over weed, video games and partying testified against his former best friend in a tense courtroom on Monday, claiming Hernandez shot him between the eyes and that he hoped to violently avenge that attack.
Alexander Bradley testified for more than six hours against the former New England Patriots star in Suffolk Superior Court, saying Hernandez shot him in the face in February 2013 in Florida after Bradley made a reference to a double murder in Boston on July 16, 2012.
Bradley, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for shooting up a bar in Connecticut, had testified Hernandez ordered him to pull up next to victims Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu at a stoplight and Hernandez fired repeatedly into the car, killing both men after de Abreu accidentally bumped Hernandez and spilled his drink at a Boston nightclub.
Months later, they were on a hastily planned trip to Florida when a paranoid Hernandez turned on him and left him to die in an alley after shooting him in the forehead, Bradley testified.
The pair — who met while Hernandez was still playing for the Florida Gators, and Bradley became his pot supplier — exchanged a series of duplicitous text messages in the months following the Florida shooting, ranging from pleasantries to thinly veiled threats.
Hernandez, according to text excerpts displayed in court cited by the Boston Globe, said Bradley was trying to set him up for “something I didn’t do.” Bradley, in turn, threatened to sue Hernandez and make his allegations public, if he refused to “compensate” him for the shooting that cost him his right eye.
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