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Hernandez trial: Tattoo artist testifies about bullets, 'God Forgives'

BOSTON — In court Wednesday, tattoo artist David Nelson described one of the two guns he inked on Aaron Hernandez in Hermosa Beach, California.

The tattoo session was in March 2013, 8 months after the drive-by shooting that killed Safiro Furtado and Daniel De'Abreu.

Prosecutors alleged Hernandez got tattoos to memorialize the double murder.

One has five bullets loaded into the cylinder of a six-shooter, allegedly representative of the five shots they say Hernandez fired with “deadly accuracy.”

Investigators say the gun used was a revolver manufactured 104 years ago.

The jury was not present for nelson's testimony, so they didn't get to hear defense attorney George Leontire describe the tattoo artist as a liar.


WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE TRIAL SO FAR: 

Monday, March 6: " Defense in Hernandez double murder trial claims new evidence"

Friday, March 10: "Defense calls for mistrial in Aaron Hernandez double murder trial"

Monday, March 13: 
"Impending nor'easter forces brief delay in Hernandez trial"

NO COURT TUESDAY, MARCH 14


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