House cleaner says she saw 2 guns in Aaron Hernandez’s home

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FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) β€” A woman who cleaned the home of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is testifying at his murder trial that she saw two guns there before the killing.

Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to the June 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd. The .45-caliber gun used to shoot him was never found.

Marilia (mah-REE’ah) Prinholato testified Monday that she saw the first gun in May 2013 when she was making the bed in a basement guestroom and it fell out from under the mattress. She described it as black, heavy and 30 to 40 centimeters long.

She says a few weeks later, she was in Hernandez’s bedroom with a co-worker who was folding Hernandez’s dirty khakis. She says the co-worker pulled a smaller silver gun from the pocket.