Aaron Hernandez will be seeing a familiar face testifying against him at his second murder trial – his own brother!
Jonathan “D.J.” Hernandez is expected to take the stand as a witness for the prosecution at the trial next week, currently underway in Boston.
Like his incarcerated brother, D.J. was also a star football player in college and started coaching after his playing days.
Earlier this year, he accepted a position as head football coach at Connecticut’s Ledyard High School. The location enables him to make trips to visit his brother in prison.
The former New England Patriots tight end is facing double-murder charges for the slaying of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado outside of Boston nightclub Cure Lounge in 2012.
He is already serving a life sentence for the 2013 first-degree murder of Odin Lloyd.
Hernandez is also facing a charge of intimidating a witness connected to the shooting his friend Alexander Bradley, who was with him the night the double murders took place.
