Ex says Bradley ID’d Hernandez as shooter
Hours after prosecutors say Aaron Hernandez shot Alexander Bradley in the face, the former New England Patriot called his former best friend’s ex-girlfriend from a Miami airport to say he was concerned he was going to miss their flight, the woman testified yesterday.
“He asked if I’d heard from Alex. He said he was supposed to meet him at the airport. He had a ticket for him and he had to leave,” said Brooke Wilcox, 31, the Connecticut waitress who prosecutors say unwittingly harbored the pals seven months earlier after they fled the murders of two men in Boston.
Hernandez’s doublemurder trial was suspended until Monday by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Jeffrey A. Locke in the hopes of protecting the jury from an illness taking its toll on the trial teams and court staff. Locke expects the jury to begin deliberations as soon as the week of April 9.
Bradley, 34, testified this week that seven months after the South End slayings of Daniel de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Furtado, 28, Hernandez asked him to join him on a flight from Miami to a photo shoot in Phoenix. Instead, Bradley says Hernandez shot him in the head.
Prosecutor Pat Haggan asked Wilcox if Bradley told her who shot him when she finally tracked him down.
“Aaron,” Wilcox said, choking back sobs. Wilcox also testified about the morning of July 16, 2012, when Bradley — whom she’d broken up with — and his famous football friend showed up at her Hartford home. Hernandez, she said, “was just like, pacing, kind of. He was drunk, maybe.” She said Bradley took her aside into the bedroom.
“He didn’t seem like himself,” Wilcox recalled. “He said, ‘This crazy (expletive) just did some stupid (expletive).’ ”