NEWSCENTER 5.
ANTOINETTE: THANK YOU, AND WE
WANT TO GET BACK TO THE BREAKIN
NEWS.
AARON HERNANDEZ HAS BEEN FOUND
DEAD IN HIS JAI CELL.
SHAWN HAS BEEN COVERING THIS FOR
WEEK, THE DOUBLE MURDER TRIAL
FOR WEEKS.
RANDY: WHEN WE SAW HIM IN THE
TRIAL WHEN THE VERDICT CAME
DOWN, HE SHOWED SIGNS OF JOY IN
TERMS OF HIM GETTING OFF ON THE
MOST SERIOUS CHARGES.
>> HE DID.
HE BROKE DOWN IN TEARS AND WE
ASSUMED THAT THOSE WERE TEARS OF
JOY BECAUSE THIS WAS A SIX WEEK
TRIAL.
IT WAS VERY EMOTIONALLY INTENSE,
NOT JUST FOR HIM BUT FOR
EVERYBODY WHO WAS WITNESSING THE
TRIAL.
BUT THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE TRIAL
HE WAS VERY EVEN KEELED.
HIS EMOTIONS WERE TEMPERED.
AT NO POINT DID WE SEE THAT HE
WAS HAVING A HARD TIME.
HE WOULD COME INTO COURT EVERY
DAY WITH A SMILE ON H FACE.
HE WOULD GREET HIS ATTORNEYS AND
USUALLY GIVE THEM A BIG
HANDSHAKE OR A HUG WITH A VERY
LARGE SMILE, AND IF HE SAW
SOMEBODY IN THE COURTROOM IN THE
AUDIENCE, THAT WAS THERE FOR
HIM, USUALLY, HIS FIANCEE, WOULD
BE SITTING THERE, THEY WOULD
ALWAYS LOCK EYES AND THEY WOULD
ALWAYS GREET EACH OTHER WITH A,
YOU KNOW, A SMILE AND A HELLO.
IT WASN'T ANY SENSE THAT HE WAS
STRUGGLING THROUGHOUT ANY OF
THIS TRIAL, AND THEN TO BE
ACQUITTED AT THE VERY END,
OBVIOUSLY, THIS WAS A HUGE
RELIEF FOR HIM AND HIS FAMILY.
HE WAS ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TO
AN APPEAL IN THE ODIN LLOYD
CASE, SO HE WAS ACQUITTED OF
THESE DOUBLE MURDERS AND THINGS
WERE PERHAPS LOOKING UP FOR HIM,
HIS ATTORNEYS, HIS DEFENSE TEAM
LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING ON
THE APPEAL, AS WELL.
ANTOINETTE: SO SHAWN, THERE IS
NO WAY TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON
INSIDE OF AARON HERNANDEZ'S
HEAD, WE CAN ONLY BE OBSERVERS
FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING AT WHAT
WE SEE OF HIS EMOTIONS.
TO YOU BEING THERE IN T
COURTROOM, NO SIGNS OF THIS
COMING AND EVEN IN ONE OF THE
LAST DAYS ON THE TRIAL, HE
ACTUALLY GOT TO SEE HIS
DAUGHTER, HIS DAUGHTER WAS THERE
IN THE COURTROOM, I BELIEVE THAT
SHE IS FOUR YEARS OLD, AND ANY
KIND OF INDICATION THAT MAYBE
SHE HAD BROUGHT HER IN, THAT --
I DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT THIS
COULD HAVE BEEN A GOODBYE BUT
WAS THERE ANY INDICATION TO
ANYONE?
>> NO, NOT TO ANY OF THE
OBSERVERS IN THAT COURTROOM
HIS FIANCEE DID BRING THEIR
DAUGHTER TO THE COURTROOM ON ONE
OF THE FINAL DAYS OF THIS TRIAL.
IT WAS INCREDIBLY EMOTIONAL
SEEING THE DAUGHTER THERE, THE
DAUGHTER HAD MENTIONED THAT, TO
HER MOM THAT SHE WANTED TO SEE
HER DAD.
WE KNEW THAT THEY HAD GONE TO
THE PRISON AND THAT THEY HAD
FATHER AND DAUGHTER BUT THEN TO
BE ACTUALLY IN THE COURTROOM IN
A TYPE OF A SETTING, AND TO SEE
HER DAD AND NOT BE ABLE TO GO
AND NOT BE ABLE TO SAY HELLO TO
HER FATHER, THAT WAS
HEART-BREAKING, THAT THE CHILD
YOU KNOW, WAS WANTING TO GO
ACROSS THE COURTROOM BAR THERE,
AND OBVIOUSLY COULDN'T.
IT WAS DIFFICULT TO WATCH THAT.
BUT AS FAR AS SEEING ANY OTHER
EMOTION BEYOND THAT TYPE OF
FATHER AND DAUGHTER BOND, IT WAS
NO SENSE THAT HE WAS HAVING A
HARD TIME, HE REALLY HELD UP
WELL THROUGHOUT ALL OF THIS
TRIAL.
SO THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING.
RANDY: YOU MENTIONED THE APPEAL
FOR HIS FIRST MURDER TRIAL.
AND OBVIOUSLY, THAT IS BEING S
ASIDE, HE IS -- HE WAS FACING
LIFE IN PRISON FOR THE REST OF
HIS LIFE.
>> THAT'S TRUE, HE WAS, AND THIS
IS SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW THE
ACQUITTAL OF THE DOUBLE MURDERS
OF SAFIRO FURTADO AND DANIEL DE
ABREU WAS BITTER SWEET PERHAPS
BECAUSE EVERY MORNING HE WOULD
WAKE UP IN PRISON, BE CARTED BY
CORRECTIONS OFFICIALS UP INTO
THE SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE, AND
THEN BACK AGAIN TO THE SOUZA
BARANOWSKI PRISON EVERY DAY.
AND THAT WOULD BE HIS LIFE.
SO THE APPEALS PROCESS AGAIN
ALSO DOWN THE ROAD, WE DON'T
KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THAT
PROCESS, OBVIOUSLY, HIS DEFENSE
TEAM WAS HOPEFUL THAT, YOU KNOW,
THAT OBVIOUSLY HAVING HIM
ACQUITTED ON THESE DOUBLE
MURDERS, THAT THEY WOULD BE ON
THE BALL AND BE ABLE TO PUSH
THAT APPEALS PROCESS FORWARD,
BUT NO INDICATION AS TO WHETHER
HIS LIFE WOULD CHANGE, WHETHER
HE WOULD LEAVE LIFE IN PRISON
FOR THE ODIN LLO CASE.
ANTOINETTE: SHAUN, THE ISSUE OF
REMORSE, HE WAS ACQUITTED OF
THIS DOUBLE MURDER IN BOSTON'S
SOUTH END IN 2012.
THAT WAS THE MOST RECENT TRIAL,
BUT THEN HE ALSO, YOU ALSO HAVE
THIS MAN A CONVICTED MURDERER,
CONVICTED IN THE MURDER OF ODIN
LLOYD, THAT ONE HAPPENED IN
2013.
IS THERE ANY SIGN THAT POSSIBLY
SEEING THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES IN
THE COURTROOM EVERY DAY, DAY IN
AND OUT, THE EMOTIONS ON THEIR
FACES, WERE THERE MOMENTS WHEN
THE VICTIM'S FAMILY LOCKED EYES
WITH HERNANDEZ A ALL?
>> YOU KNOW IF HE MADE ANY EYE
CONTACT WITH THEM, AT NO POINT
DID HE LET IT BE KNOWN TO
ANYBODY ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE.
THEY SAT THERE FRONT ROW, THE
FIRST, IN FACT, TWO ROWS, THOSE
VICTIMS' FAMILIES, AND THEY WERE
THERE DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
THERE WAS NOT A DAY THAT THEY
MISSED IN THAT COURTROOM.
THEY WANTED TO SEE JUSTICE.
THEY TRULY BELIEVED THAT AARON
HERNANDEZ WAS THE PERSON WHO
PULLED THE TRIGGER.
NOT ANYBODY ELSE, DESPITE WHAT
THE DEFENSE TEAM HAD SAID.
THE DEFENSE TEAM HAD BLAMED IT
ON ANOTHER PERSON, BUT THEY
BELIEVED THAT AARON HERNANDEZ
WAS THE TRIGGER MAN, THE PERSON
WHO KILLED THEIR SON AND, THEIR
TW SONS, THE QUESTION IS,
THOUGH, WHETHER OR NOT AARON
HERNANDEZ EVER WOULD FEEL ANY
REMORSE.
YOU WILL REMEMBER BACK IN THE
ODIN LLOYD CASE AFTER HE WAS
CONVICTED NOW HE'S -- HE'S GOT
IT WRONG TO THE JURY SO THE
QUESTION AT THAT POINT, WE KNEW
THAT HE FELT LIKE HE WAS