http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/10996257/aaron-hernandez-former-new-england-patriots-tight-end-pleads-not-guilty-2012-shooting

BOSTON -- Prosecutors say former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez gunned down two men in their car last year after one of them accidentally bumped into him at a Boston nightclub, spilling a drink.

Hernandez pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon in the shooting deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. A third man was wounded during the attack.

A family member of one of the victims sobbed loudly as Hernandez entered his not guilty plea to seven charges.

Prosecutors say Hernandez became agitated and told a friend that de Abreu had deliberately bumped him. Prosecutors say Hernandez later tracked down de Abreu and his friends and opened fire on their car from an SUV.

Hernandez's attorney called the prosecutor's account of the 2012 shootings an attempt to poison the jury pool.

Hernandez is currently being held in the Bristol County Jail awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charges for the shooting death of Odin Lloyd on June 17, 2013.