NORTH ATTLEBORO -- The Massachusetts State Police were back at the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez Wednesday.
At one point Wednesday morning policemen left after no one answered the door when they sought entry. Later, police searched a wooded area near the house. According to WBZ-TV, they found a gun near the site where a man's dead body was found Monday.
The dead man has been identified as Odin Lloyd, 27, of Boston. A man who said he is Lloyd's uncle told WBZ that his nephew played semipro football for a team called the Boston Bandits.
Hernandez purchased the home, on Ronald C. Meyer Drive, from former Patriot Ty Warren. It is inside a development, called Westwood Estates, whose residents include former Patriot linebacker Tedy Bruschi as well as current New England stars Logan Mankins and Jerod Mayo. Former Patriots Deion Branch and Adalius Thomas have also lived there.
Separately, TMZ.com reported that Hernandez is a defendant in a civil suit filed in Florida by a man who claims that Hernandez shot him following an altercation at a strip club. There is no criminal action pending in that case.
-- With reports from The Associated Press
-- The original version of this report was published at 12:36 p.m.