Prosecutor: Aaron Hernandez killed 2 over spilled drink

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez rubs his head as he sits with his attorneys on the fist day of his double murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is standing trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. He is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, Pool)BOSTON (AP) -- Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez misinterpreted a brief encounter at a Boston nightclub involving a spilled drink as a sign of disrespect and became furious, later gunning down the two men involved, a prosecutor said in opening statements in Hernandez's double murder trial.

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