Fiancée says Aaron Hernandez was intoxicated before Odin Lloyd's murder

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Aaron Hernandez's fiancée took the stand Friday for the first time since the former Patriot tight end's murder trial began almost nine weeks ago. 

Shayanna Jenkins, who was granted immunity, revealed that Hernandez was intoxicated in the hours before the slaying of Odin Lloyd, her sister's boyfriend.

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"I don't know, we were both kind of intoxicated, I guess," Jenkins said, according to the Associated Press.

Jenkins said she didn't remember smelling marijuana but that she believed Hernandez did smoke some that night.

After getting home at 12:39 a.m. on the day of the murder, Jenkins said co-defendants Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace arrived at the home shortly after her but then left around 1:30 or 2 a.m., with Hernandez. She said she couldn't remember if they said where they were going.

According to ESPN, Jenkins also revealed Friday, one day after Lloyd's death, she said Hernandez told her in a call from jail to meet up Wallace and give him money, although he did not say what it was for.

Jenkins also told jurors that she found a handgun in a kitchen junk drawer before the killing of Odin Lloyd, but she noticed the weapon was missing after the alleged murder.

Pressed by prosecutors if the missing gun was similar to the object Hernandez was seen with the night of the alleged murder, she said she was unsure.

"I can't see the full item," Jenkins said. "It's not depicted here. Only a black blob, it looks like right now."

Jenkins will continue her testimony Monday, when court resumes. 

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