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- I had heard about it.
A murder in Attleborough.
You never gonna think it's one of your guys.
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I got a call that it was Odin.
I just froze because you can't just,
I just conversed with him on Saturday, and it's just,
you just, I don't wanna call it shock,
you just don't know how to respond.
A lot of teammates met up just to support each other.
- I played football,
and went to high school with Odin Lloyd.
He always thought about everybody else's dreams.
He would always be on the sideline with me,
always in my ear,
always like, if I didn't see something,
he'd come, and be like, "Hey, go do this.
Look for this," he was there for me.
- I didn't know even what to say to his mother.
I couldn't even fathom calling her that day.
That's her life, that's her only boy.
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- The newsroom was a tizzy.
I was covering crime in Boston.
I figured this was probably a sports story
and a story that won't really involve me all that much.
And I couldn't have been more wrong.
Aaron Hernandez was a rising star, if not already a star.
Everyone wanted to know
why would Aaron Hernandez seemingly throw it all away
to kill this man?
The case of Odin Lloyd is very tragic
because there's no reason for him to have died.
He didn't do anything.
He didn't hurt anybody.
There was never any clear evidence
that there was a motive for his death.
So, it's so senseless.
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- That man being found guilty,
doesn't make his mom's life whole.
Doesn't make practices on Wednesday nights
with the Bandits whole.
So, I don't know the dictionary definition of justice
but I would think justice is something
that makes the situation whole.
So, nah, I don't think there was no justice in this.
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- There was a law that says that
if you die while your case is being appealed, at that point,
basically, it's like the conviction goes away.
You're innocent.
- I didn't think that was right.
I thought it was antiquated,
and there was no real basis for it.
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We were able to argue
the case before the Supreme Judicial Court.
I argued that this doesn't make any sense.
He was convicted by a jury,
and he died before the appeal was completed
which is exactly what happened.
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We're very happy to be able to change the law.
That was one positive that came out of the tragedy.
- And if he was here, and I was able to speak to him again,
I would just tell him that I love him,
that he had a big impact on my life.
And then, just proud to be somebody
who was able to be in his presence.
- He was the person I could talk to.
Just sit on that stoop and just talk to
while we wait for my kids to get off the bus.
When someone passes away,
you try to hold on to things that make you feel them.
My kids are big now.
They don't take that bus no more.
Maybe a few times, I go sit at that stoop and smoke one.
Just hoping that one day he'll come out that cut.
"Yo, Mass, yo, Mike, what up?"
Crossing the street, looking both ways so he don't get hit.
Then, dust the seat off and sit down next to me.
That ain't gonna happen.
Never.
A million people come and do that same thing with me
but it ain't gonna be him.
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