Murder at the U

A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.

Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide? At this point nobody knows. Old friendships. Buried cash and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie plays out in real life. I'm Juju Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio, listen to Bridge of Lies, coming March 10th, wherever you listen to podcasts. The shooting happened right down Southwest 77th Avenue here in the parking lot of Pattas apartment building and tonight Miami-Dade police are searching for his killer.

Yeah, Brian Pattas was a defensive star in Miami hurricanes. He was going to be in the NFL in just a few months.

“So wouldn't you mean they killed him? Why? What would somebody do this?”

It was just coming home. I had just gotten home from work. And as I answered the phone, it was my mom. And my mom shared with me, "You haven't heard? Sydney is dead? I just paused." And started screaming. When Brian Pattas mother got to the scene and she was told that her son had been killed

I mean, it was devastating. It looked like one of those scenes he'd see in the movie of a mother just wailing and it was heartbreaking. It was a scream of pain that they were just coming from her soul and gut. And I was like, "Oh my God, this is real." She hugged me and said, "Sidney is gone." I was like, "Oh my, I started to cry so bad."

"My son is very good son, I have a problem with nobody." "No, no, it's not." "You're watching the rawest of emotions. You're watching someone deal with a tragedy in real time." This is a very private emotional moment, but it's been broadcast on live TV.

“And little did we know in that moment how much more devastating it would become?”

Life has always been a challenge in obstacles of test of who I am and what I will become.

My name is Brian Pattas and this is my story. We're in this theater right now. It's game time. Brian Pattas was larger than life. His aura, it just stuck out. He always gets here by the kind of gravitate towards him. We got those cameras like the year before.

It made up. It was up to the camera, huh? As soon as he got it, everybody was walking around with him.

Everybody always taking videos.

“It's a true encapsulation of who this person was at that age.”

Living in Miami being a stock football player. Take on this shirt. Brian was always filming. He had to be in front of the camera. He had to be recording him dancing. If you look at him, you know he may be a little intimidating.

But he was a great person. He had a great heart. Great spirit. His smile could just light up room when he came in. He made everybody laugh. He just hit a soft heart and really loved people. We could see this huge guy that looks, you know, this football player.

But for me, that was the past that. I knew they saw inside of him. That's the brother I remember. Brian Paddock came from a big family. He had a even larger extended family when you consider the football team.

The people in his life and community who looked up to him. My mom, she's from Haiti.

You have the dream that the American dream that come in, work hard. It was quite a struggle for my mom, you know, single parent home. You know, they try to make ends meet. It's a total of nine children. So there were six boys and three girls.

Brian was the last of the nine.

You've never called Brian at home.

You've never called on Brian. Everybody outside knew of him as Brian, but we knew him as Sydney. Brian petted like a lot of people in Miami didn't have it easy. They moved around a lot, spent a lot of time in Little Haiti and the North Miami. Brian and his brothers, they were sports crazy.

For them, it was a way to get away from some of the troubles. And the neighborhoods that they lived in.

“Sports was for us pretty much the only way to get to cows.”

To a forward cows. That's why we part of the reason why we work so hard at it.

When I first met Brian, I was just like, "Wow, this guy's unbelievable talent."

Brian physically was so gifted in high school. You knew this was somebody who could play at a high level in college. Brian was heavily recruited out of high school. But he knew he wanted to stay in this region and he wanted to stay in this area. But it ultimately came down to being close to his mom.

There was only one school for Brian, and that was the University of Miami. He has a motor that will not stop. Miami Hurricanes in the early 2000s, hands down the best team of all time. Brian Peta was a high-performing player on a team that was highly regarded. A lot of people think he would have had a long substantial career in the NFL.

“With Brian, his biggest hope was to make it to the NFL, be as successful as possible.”

You can be in order for him to take care of his family. He was a big baby. He'll be sitting in the locker. And like, "Here, there's been laughing." Like, "What are you laughing at?"

"What are you laughing at?" And here, he'll be listening to his message. His mom just left for him. And said, "Be like boy, I dream you today." He used to make me laugh too.

She babied him. I mean, she loved him so much. And we all did. Brian would be on the phone with his mom.

The every single day they talked, he always made sure he checked in with her.

This trajectory that Brian Peta was on was not his alone. His mother, she was on this journey with him. What are you making? Oh man, I'm coming. Let's fish. What did he do?

He was going to experience the American Dream, which is to have a better life than your parents had, and to share that with them. And that whole trajectory was just derailed. He was laughing at me. He's laughing at me. He's so proud of me.

Hello. Hello. Hello. Come on in there. Somebody got set. He grabbed on the ground. I don't want to leave when he's on the ground. When police arrive, they start courting off the area. At some point, my immediate police realizes that they need an assistant,

the state's attorney's office representative to be there. They phone Herbert Walker, who was on call that night. By the time I got to this scene, you could already see people beginning to gather around it. Tonight, the shooting, there is just a lot of police lights. People in the area, everybody wanted to find out what happened.

“Everybody was calling each other. What's going on? What happened?”

After the initial incident, I remember meeting with friends and family members, just to gather information. My experience as a prosecutor, time is up. The essence and the clock is ticking. In the hours after Brian's murder, the Miami football team didn't know if this was an attack on Brian. If this was going to be an attack on multiple players.

That summer, another teammate got shot a couple months prior to Brian.

I was scared myself and nobody knows where.

“I thought somebody was trying to kill me, too.”

[Music] This is murder at the U. I'm Paula Levine. I got started on this in the spring of 2018. We were just gathering sound.

At some point, we realized we had enough sound and enough of a story to make it a true podcast. The podcast itself didn't really come to fruition until the story seemed a little more complete. From 30 foot 30 podcasts, we had a killer moxtice murder at the U. The podcast is the result of eight years of investigative reporting by ESPN. I would say we've interviewed more than 100 people.

We've gathered more than 5,000 police documents.

Anything we've been able to get our hands on has helped us in our investigation to this point.

A star player on a major college football team murdered near campus, just a few months shy of the NFL draft. Brian Paddo was an outstanding defensive lineman with U.M.

“and was being talked about as an NFL prospect until about 7.30 tonight,”

when he was shot and killed in the parking lot of his apartment building. Give me my gun! Give me my gun! A woman believed to be Paddo's mother wearing a U.M. jersey with his number on it. Collapsed that she rushed to the scene. Other family and friends were overcome by the news.

In the weeks leading up to Brian Paddo's death, his family had noticed some things that made them think that Brian thought something bad was going to happen to him. I last saw Brian that Sunday on the fourth.

I cooked a huge meal for him. My mom and I, he came over.

And he just seemed kind of just really mellow quiet. He just spaced out. And his head was down the whole time, kept rubbing his head, and his hair was front of his face, just kept rubbing his head like this. His spirit was awful. He don't know. He couldn't explain it.

And I remember him leaving. And he said, "Thank you, sis," and gave me a big hug. It seemed like he was so far away from me, but he was literally right there. And I'm like, "Okay, I love you. I'll see you soon." And not knowing that would be my last conversation with him.

November 7th, 2006, pretty average day for Brian. He and his teammate Eric Montgomery Corps decide that they're going to go register for spring classes. We went over, we registered for classes. And then we went over and got something to eat. After that, we went back to the, to the heck athletic facility.

We had a great day of practice. After practice. We were told by one of Brian's teammates, Chris Zellner, that he was in the locker room. There was a call that Chris Zellner overheard

where it seemed like somebody was threatening Brian. He just happened to be just me and Brian left in a locker room. And then he received the phone call. It started off as a normal call, and then it got started getting heated.

“Brian started to say, "If you want to come see me, come see me."”

"You know what the **** I'm at?" "If you **** they hung up. I looked over. I didn't want to be too nosy." And I was just like, "Hey, man, are you good?" Like, "You straight?"

That was the anguish I've ever seen Brian powder. Like, ever. After practice is done, Brian gets in his car. He's heading home. He sees some of the younger teammates. He offers them a ride home, and drops them off.

Brian arrives home around 657. He's on the phone with his brother Fedanol. And he says to him, "I'm gonna let you go now. I just pulled in." Brian pulls into the parking lot in front of his apartment complex.

And exits his car. Within police estimate, probably two minutes of that, he gets shot in the head. Brian's girlfriend, J.D. Brody, says she heard a bang and people are going.

J.D. goes outside to investigate. She sees Brian powder laying face down on a sidewalk. Feet from his car. She thinks he's joking because he's his jokester. And realizes that his opponent fluttered around his head.

"I'm gonna let you go!" "I'm gonna let you go!" "I'm gonna let you go!"

There's police cars, fire rescue everywhere.

“They basically gave me the quick overview of what had happened”

and told me that Mr. Potter was found face down on the sidewalk. "I saw a large black male just about 20 feet from the entrance to his apartment. There appeared to be an entrance move to the back of the head and it was a single shot.

Based upon fact that we didn't find any shell casings, it was suspected that it would have been a smaller caliber or wall or style handgun." It was clearly not done as a robbery. They found Brian's wallet.

There were $9, $100 bills still in it. It's cell phone. No one had stolen anything. "To me, this might have been more the line of a hit targeted assassination, if you will."

All through the night, the police canvas the colony apartments knocking on every door. But they turned up no eyewitnesses. There was no security camera footage. There was no obvious trace of the killer.

Other than the bullet that had pierced Brian's skull. "It was the worst feeling I ever had in my whole life.

As an older brother, you always want to protect your younger brothers.

And I felt like I wasn't there to protect him. It was his awful awful."

“Who could have wanted a rising football star with a promising future?”

Dead. Detectives began asking questions that night. They were asking Brian's family and teammates if he had any enemies. If he'd been in any fights, if he was worried for his safety. Turns out, the answer to all of those questions was yes.

[music playing] This is my enemy. There's a dangerous sexy cool reputation in this town. [music playing] You answered it in the beginning.

And if you are a college football player at the University of Miami. Okay, time to see you. You were going to get caught up in that fast living lifestyle very quickly. You noticed your boy. We could turn up.

We'd better.

You know, so I'm just showing you out of my car all the way down.

Good dog, baby. Yeah, I was Brian. Yeah, he was even that flashy. Check out on my inside. He said, "Yeah, ooh, ooh, ooh."

He was very flashy. [music playing]

“Back in the days, actually, all the U.N. players are...”

Hey, Brian. This DJ's done. Brian came to the shop. This is what he wanted right here. This is favorite color right here.

Can't be up a goal. That's terrible. He loved that. [music playing] Brian's love of cars came during a time when a lot of kids his age were doing a lot of the same thing. [music playing]

He had a great joy of buying old classic cars, fixing them up, and then flipping them on the internet. Just showing you how my work, what I could do to my cars, pulling that good. He enjoyed that aspect of taking something

making it beautiful, and then trying to get a buck off of it. That was one of the things that Brian wanted to do once he's got successful and got paid in the pros is open up a car, Chuck. [music playing]

Can you have with it, Eric Ross? [music playing] Oh, not way to my problem. Now, U.S. won going south. [music playing]

In 2006, MTV Cribbs was a show that was still popular. On this episode of MTV Cribbs and F.L. edition, welcome MTV Cribbs. [music playing] I thought, well, this would be really cool.

We could start doing this with local athletes and sort of make it a local story. That was working for the Miami Herald. I was a high school slash college football writer. And because of my long relationship, Brian Potter,

I just felt like he was the perfect candidate. Because he was one of those top ranked players who didn't feel like he was too big for you. He wanted to help tell his story. I had touched a microphone with a tape recorder

to Brian's shirt and we recorded it. I love y'all. And my crib, I'm Brian Potter. University of Miami. He was a tiger.

[music playing] What's up? You're walking. This is a townhouse, two bedroom two and a half bathroom. [music playing]

It's a live room. You know, we got not that much stuff, but it's decent for athletes. I broke a TV, I kind of spilled juice on it. So, no TV there, but it gave a box.

So you got a kitchen.

You know, I've got one dish in here, one cup.

[music playing] It goes nuts there to the room. Through my room.

“You know, it's like, it's not spectacular,”

not like that, but this is a little collage of me and my girl. [music playing] Jeter Brody was at the time of Brian's death. His girlfriend. They've been together for exactly a year.

She had moved into his apartment earlier that summer. I introduced Brian to his girlfriend, Jeter. My name is Dave Hollin. I was friends and teammates with Brian Potter. We were at an on-campus party,

and he ended up noticing her from like the far. And he was just like, you know, who was that? I was like, oh, I know her. I went to high school with her. Her name was Jeter.

He was just like, you know, can you hook us up?

And I introduced them. But, Jeter? Yeah. Brian was not, you know, some surreal data in all. And he was a typical collage student.

And I think at that point, he just kind of settled down a little bit.

“You have to take this relationship a little more serious with Jeter.”

They had their fights, they had their love. They were just a typical collage couple. The day that he was killed, the night before they were celebrating their wedding anniversary. So what seemed like they were, you know, they were on cloud nine to me.

According to what she told detectives, Jeter was in the apartment cleaning out her dog's kennel. She told police that she heard an argument outside, possibly Brian's voice, and went to see what was going on.

She saw Brian lying on the ground. At first, she thought he was playing a prank. Then she saw blood around his head. Jeter said she ran back upstairs to call 911. One of the things that police looked into

and that we looked into as well.

You never know who might be a possible suspect

at that point, everybody's a suspect. One of the things that police looked into and that we looked into as well were some conflicts that Brian apparently had with Jeter's family. The police found that in the spring of 2006,

“Jeter told her father Jerry that Brian had broken up with her”

because he's suspected her of cheating on him. Jerry told police that he then called Brian to warn him not to speak disrespectfully about his daughter. The conversation with Jerry led detectives to Jeter's twin brother Jerome.

Jerome Brody had been in and out of jail for various offenses. And his father said that Jerome would have killed anyone who messed with the family. You might have a situation where a brother

a sibling might feel strongly enough that he might take matters into his own hands. About a month after Brian's murder, Jeter Brody's brother Jerome Brody ends up getting arrested in Boston

and as part of the arrest, police find some guns in a vehicle. Miami-Dade gets this information that they have those guns tested to see if they're a match to the bullet found in Brian's skull.

Miami-Dade police flew up to Boston, tried to speak with Jerome. He was unwilling to speak but those guns that Jerome had didn't match any possibility to Brian.

We did our new diligence and we couldn't place him in the area. Jeter's twin brother and other members of her family were deemed not to be involved. The police started going down

all of these different rabbit holes but they actually were starting to look at someone much closer to Brian. Whether Brian got mixed up with the wrong girl is one of the questions that certainly

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a defensive wineman for the Miami Hurricanes. Ryan Patta was shot and killed. Brian Patta was a great leader. A team leader.

A selfless, fun loving kid teachers loved him. And tragedy, we missed Brian Patta. I was late to rest

at the new birth Baptist Church in Miami. A amount of people that was coming in. I think it was like over 2,000 people. I remember a mom passing out

crying passed out completely. Yeah, completely passed out. A lot of our team mates was there. You know? It was a sad day, man.

It was a hard day. Dean, a lot of teammates break down and start crying. It was a really tough day for the University of Miami.

Look at this moment here.

At the first game after Brian's murder,

the team kneeled for a moment of prayer and silent reflection midfield with this big banner. Brian Patta's image, the slain hurricane team mate,

a banner that fans made and the team gathering around that it midfield. That was rough. It was just like,

numb. You know, like, you didn't feel like playing football. You know what I mean? Like, the team mate just got killed.

One month before Brian was murdered, one of his friends had purchased for him a suit to wear to draft day. Brian picked us out the word as draft and they had it all out

and that's when he hit me.

Then just looking at that,

“it was supposed to be the best night of his life.”

And this is the worst. You got a barrier, man. There's an alternate universe in which this tragedy doesn't occur, where Brian Patta goes on

to the NFL and he would have been a multi-millionaire. It would have been another mighty hurricane's American dream story.

Everybody wanted to find out what happened. It's just a lot of questions. Who did this? Who would have wanted to go Ryan Potter? In the hours after Brian's murder,

the Miami football team decided to bring all of the players back to the athletic center, the head center, to brief them all on what had happened. The one glaring thing that people noticed

is that there was one player not there. Brian had an issue with one player or two, and I was with Sean Jones. He didn't like him, he didn't get along. He's not a good person.

Brian Patta's name was Bussing at that time. It was a lot of talk about his future.

“A lot of hype about him going into the NFL draft.”

Sean Jones was more of a background player. He didn't hear his name a whole lot. Sean Jones was a safety on the football team and defensive back. He really didn't play very much.

I looked at him as like a cool young guy. Jokes there. He gets out by the way he worked on the field. He was somebody who was passionate about the game. He was a ladies man.

I mean, I knew every time I seen him, he was trying to get out the girls. In the early days of the investigation, police came across a specific beef that Brian had with Rashont.

And it was largely over J.D. Brody, Brian's girlfriend. Prior to Brian and J.D. being in a relationship, it was rumored that Rashont and J.D. had some form of relationship.

That is what the friction that was there between Brian and Rashont. According to some of Brian's teammates, there would be taunting about, you know, she's my girl.

There was definite jealousy and factors there

who she liked, who she was dating

“and what her history was with both guys.”

He just said that he kept trying to fight him. And so they kept getting some little fights. In 2004, there was an incident between Rashont and Brian that had happened on campus in one of their dorm rooms.

The dorm fight, me, Brian and Eric were walking up to Eric's room. And at that time, we saw Rashont leaving out of the room. We were just kind of confused.

Like, why is he in there? I don't know. He said he was looking for DVDs. He was trying to apologize to me, but you know, I really don't want to hear it.

You know, I was just tired.

I was ready to go to sleep because I had to be up in a few hours. Rashont ends up trying to, you know, leave out of the room

“and then Brian ended up punching Rashont.”

And me and Eric kind of looked at each other like, did it really just escalate like that fast? I broke it up when Rashont was walking out. He told Brian, he might as well go ahead and clip up. They heard Rashont say to Brian,

you better clip up, meaning that he better get a gun. I was like, "Y'all about to shoot each other right now?" He'd (bleep) got him out of my room. Like, you know what I mean? I'm about to go to sleep.

Like, you know, I, I, I'll, I'll, I'll let you. Rashont jump straight and Brian.

So you never take anybody who threatened your life.

Light didn't like that. I don't think that he looked at that as like a threat. I mean, he never really mentioned it after. You know what I mean?

“Here's what we had learned about Rashont.”

Rashont had conflicts with Brian. He would have known the hurricane's practice schedule and what time Brian would arrive home. According to the police report, there were no eyewitnesses to the shooting.

No murder weapon was ever found. And there was no record of any physical evidence linking Rashont to the crime. Clearly the name Rashont Jones came up but there was on a list of many names that we were looking at.

Initially, police looked into a broad string of incidents involving a Miami football team, but they weren't able to make any connection to Brian shooting. As the investigation continued and police widened their search, they realized there was a long list of people

who may have wanted to harm Brian. At one point, the police had been alerted by a jailhouse snitch that his selfie had allegedly confessed to him one night. As part of vetting, the police had the informant to take a polygraph. No rest as of yet as police and Miami continue their investigation.

Brian Patta, senior defense of Lyman for Miami, gunned down at the age of 22. The murder of Brian Patta took on mythological proportions in this town. It was like everybody had a different theory.

But got it. We learned that Brian had a busy life. It wasn't just football and his girlfriend. He was involved in a lot of things. The investigation at the start went in so many different directions.

There were so many different angles they were trying to go with. I felt like the police just didn't know which leads to really truly go for. It wasn't a limited field of suspects. You need to follow the evidence. One of the tips that came into the Miami-Dade police

was that if they wanted to find Brian Patta's killer, they needed to look for ties with the Zopound gang. Zopound the well-known gang in the Miami area. They were notorious for doing crimes of great violence. Zopound was featured as one of the bad guys in one of the

Will Smith Martin Lawrence, bad boys, movies. Yo, dry off sweetheart, that's ice pick. He said the Haitian Zopound is about to do a rep. Let's move. There is no indication that Brian was a member of this gang.

But there are members of the Zopound gang who told us that they were aware of Brian that they knew him. He homicide detectives weren't able to bring back anything that would tie a specific action of the Zopound to this incident. There was a lot of talk about Brian getting into fights

which some pretty potentially dangerous characters. Whoa, whoa. It is not uncommon at all to see bad blood lead to fish being thrown in a nightclub in Miami. A few months before Brian is killed,

Brian and some of his teammates are at a club called Club Life. And they get into an altercation with some guys there who belong to a gang.

Brian sprung punches and he's clearly involved in the fight. And as they are leaving, members of this gang are telling them we're going to come after you for this. And one of the teammates with Brian at the time is calling Brian and telling him that someone's got to hit out on us.

At first Brian was definitely worried about these guys.

His girlfriend found him sleeping the closet where he kept his shotgun.

“And I think that that was certainly a reasonable indication”

of concern or fear or paranoia on Brian's part. The club life investigation didn't seem to go anywhere. But then a few months later the police got another promising lead and a ledge jailhouse confession. There was a jailhouse informant.

His name was Bernard Brinson. And he claimed that he was having a conversation with another inmate by the name of a manual Jones. And a manual Jones would end up telling him that he got paid to do a hit.

And that he believed that the person he got paid to do the hit on was Brian Pada. They went and actually ministered a lie detector test

and they were jailhouse snitched past the lie detector test.

Back in 2007 police had quickly ruled a manual Jones out as a suspect. There is evidence in the police records that that man had an alibi because he was in jail on November 7th, 2006.

“But we discovered the police had the timeline of his arrest”

all wrong. That robbery took place in August 2006. But Jones wasn't actually arrested until December a month after Brian's murder. Miami police did not respond to our request for comment.

Years later I was able to actually track down the alleged confessor, "immanuel Jones." And I got him on the phone and I was trying to bring him back to that time period in 2006. If someone were to say, "Hey, you confess to this murder,

do you remember where you were?" "No member." "I was nowhere, I don't know anything about no murder." They wrote he had an alibi. He was in jail for stealing a dirt bike in an armed robbery.

There was all this talk of jailhouse confessions and tales of professional hits. All of this just swirled. Because there was just this emptiness that the police couldn't feel.

"You can hear this person's elite person and next week someone else is elite person." When it took longer than six months, all of a sudden, like, "What's going on?" Now a tragedy that has no closure, no conclusion

and no answers, the murder of Brian Potter. They take too long to know who killed him. I don't know what to say anymore. Every day, I'm talking. We tried to call the detective to ask them questions.

They don't want to pick up the phone. We leave them and say, "They don't call back." It feels like my immediate need to do something new. Their hand was almost forced and to doing something creative. As a reporter, I tried to stay out of the story.

But sometimes the work you do to get the story and what you uncover changes it. That's exactly what happened here.

To my knowledge, this is the first time

a police entity has ever reached out to ESPN for help with the case like this. From 30 for 30 podcasts. Brian Potter, Senior Defense of Lyme and from Miami, gunned out.

“The key to this case, it's Brian Potter.”

Brian Potter. A hour before he died, he was on a phone. Arnold's about this might be my hit. You want to true. You just want to convince him to press your wrist.

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I've seen those guys that he knew. And I'm getting picked. It was real sad to watch. Introduce yourself, eh? I'm Greg Olson.

How you doing, Travis? Greg Olson and Brian were good friends on the team.

After Brian's death, Greg Olson went on to have an incredible NFL career

in a long broadcast career after. It reminds you of what could have been for Brian. The life that he could have lived. It isn't entirely clear to us how this case ended up becoming a cold case. There was a ton of media attention at the time, but fell off.

The family reached a point that they were very frustrated with the police efforts to finding answers. When you look at the police file, you see very, very little new inserts from 2010 to 2016. It was almost like nothing had been done. It's much of 2017.

And the family is holding a joint press conference with Miami DADBD.

“I think it was the pressure from the family that finally prompted the Miami DADBD police department to reach out to the media.”

I see, okay, look, the family wants us to do something. Let's at least make the effort to put the word out there again and see if we can generate some leads. Maybe now 10 years later, somebody who might have information might be an adult now. Maybe they'll do the right thing and make that one phone call that we need. So when the summer of 2017, Miami DADBD police reached out to ESPN,

in the hopes that we would produce a feature. Hoping that it might trigger something and somebody watching it. We discussed it internally and thought, let's see if there's something more to this story than just a college game day piece. We're ready to kind of jump in with both feet and then see what we can do to move the case forward if you will. That's on a great dream.

We would ask lots of questions.

A lot of them they couldn't answer, but a lot of them they did.

“What do you know if anything about maybe what led up to it or if there was an argument or anything?”

We don't know if he had bad blood with anybody. That's right now we really don't have a motive. One of the things that really drives me and investigation is looking at, okay, the people who were supposed to be doing a good job at this, what did they do? I wanted to dig further into this.

Once we started putting in requests for actual police events and police files, it quickly became a little bit adversarial. There are a lot of questions we have about witness interviews, phone records, and any other possible leads that you guys have gone down that we would love for you to share with us. That's stuff that is since it's still active, where it can't post growth.

They did start to provide some documents, but the problem was giant sections of them were blacked out. If we didn't get the information, it couldn't tell a complete story. Greg Cooper and Dean Jackson are members of a cold case unit in Utah. We realized we needed some out-of-house guidance on how we had preceded Miami D's police work. They were former investigators, law enforcement, and when they looked at this, they agreed.

There were some of these angles that the police hadn't ruled out. There was some redaction to those reports, so without having that information, it created questions about the investigation and how far it went, how thorough it was. One of the things that I just can't get over with this is that there were some just basic omissions and errors that you would not think that a police department of that size would be making.

In 2006, there weren't text messages. Did you guys look through Brian's texts from what was available on the physical phone? I don't believe there's text messages in that one. That was the old style of phone that was pushed to the top phones or the old things that I don't believe there was texting.

By the time we went back to the computer later, we had learned a lot about Brian's life. At that point, we were asking them questions which they didn't even have answers to. We were told by Chris Zellner, Brian's teammate, that in the locker room after practice, the day of the shooting, Brian was engaged in a very heated phone call. Was that calling bestigated?

“I don't remember that individual's name.”

I don't think I personally interviewed him.

After we all got the news that Brian passed away, I immediately pulled up police officers and they just kind of like, "Okay, thank you. We'll take that into consideration." And that was it.

“No follow-up questions, no like, "Do you think you heard anything?”

Do you think you heard a name? Nothing like that?"

I never heard from them ever again.

The caller that Chris Zellner had overheard is a cause for concern in that there was never identified who the caller was or what the nature of the conversation was. That should have been tracked down,

identified and interviewed. When the police department was being reticent with us about information, that really made me curious because you wanted us to do this, like you wanted this exposure.

What is it that you don't want to tell us? It appeared as though the Miami-D police turned on the very people that they had recruited into this effort to help solve this cold case. Yes, Pian decided that the only way

to try to get an unredacted copy of the files was to sue Miami-D police. So we're here on the case of ESPN Inc. versus Miami-D County at all case number 2020, 5G or 29G is your one.

Eventually we were ruled against but while on the stands we were able to get several officers of Miami-D to admit. Does MDPD know who killed Brian Potter?

Yeah, we have a strong belief as to who responsible for his death. And that revelation confirmed what was previously released to us by accident in the heavily redacted police reports.

In some of the initial batches of records that they gave us, they included dossiers on a lot of the people they looked into. The only cover page

that had the word suspect on it was the cover page for Rochon Jones.

“We knew that was important if we got to redact it.”

That was the first indication that

they were not being truthful with us. Do you have a specific suspect in mind? No. I mean, anybody, we didn't have a specific suspect.

The police are not required to be truthful to reporters. However, in denying they ever had a main suspect, they made us even more skeptical of their information.

They had considered Rochon Jones a suspect from the beginning. In November of 2020, our investigative team decided that it was ready to publish something

with everything we had learned. That photo that was featured so prominently of all the players on the field kneeling by that banner of Brian's face

will look very different based on the players who are pictured in it. My mom, she still talks to him and we hope we're clean

the gravesite, the heartbreak of not knowing there's not a day that my mom did not wake up. She's in tears.

She'll never be the same.

I remember my son, every day. This is sad. While interviewing the family, we learn that every year,

they held a vigil on the anniversary of Brian's murder at his gravestone. I try to keep this case active as much as we can.

13 years later, you realize nothing's been really done. Somebody just kill him like this. It's not why. One day, two of them will come out.

From the outside looking in, it was the kind of case that police should have been motivated to solve quickly. But that is not what happened.

Instead, weeks turned into months which eventually turned into years and Brian's murder remained unsolved. In November of 2020, our investigative team decided

that we'd probably take in the case as far as we could to that point. That's when the digital story came out. The family was so appreciative

It's a pressure. It seemed, would be put back on Miami-Dade Police. You may remember this case,

“because Patta was a star-football player”

for the University of Miami. It's been over a decade. And the murder of Brian Patta is still unsolved in one of South Florida's most infamous

unsolved murders, the shooting of a University of Miami lineman. And it remains unsolved to this day. I felt like that got the ball rolling again. It opened in a big time.

Our story was a very first time

that the public had been told that Rashad Jones, a former teammate of Brian Patta was the person that police were considering most likely to have killed him.

One of the theories of Brian's murder definitely revolved around his teammate Rashad Jones. There was pretty open conflict between the two of them.

After reading, me is being article and in just kind of putting this piece and this piece together to kind of make it make sense. I started to believe that

there was definitely a capability of this being Rashad. I received a voice mail from Edrick. Brian's older brother.

Hey Dan, good morning. He did not really good. I think they might didn't make an arrest soon. Nine months after our story comes out, we get worried

that the Miami-Daped Police Department is moving to arrest Rashad Jones. I believe one of the panelists was the ESPN article I came out. I think also the state prosecutor

also get a little more aggressive in his approach towards a resting someone. They show up at a dollar tree warehouse in O'Colaford

where he's working and they're waiting for him when he leaves work. And he's arrested and placed under arrest.

Another exclusive tonight,

the wife of a former U.M. football player coming to his defense after he was arrested from murder.

I heard him say Rashad Jones. Put your phone down you're on their race. Rashad Jones wife says

he says he knows nothing about that night and doesn't know killed Brian Patta. He's not

his person that they're trying to portray it. She says even though Jones and Patta had a history, it was resolved

before his death. He said it wasn't even at odds when Brian got killed. He's not a murderer.

He's not. An arrest in the 15-year-old cold case that murder of a university of Miami football

player. Brian Patta was fatally shot outside his apartment back in November of 2006.

And now police have arrested his former teammate 35 of Rashad Jones and charged him with

Patta's death. I said to myself it's about time. It's about time. My mom was

she got up and she started to dance and she started to praise God and say thank you.

I kept trying to say it can't be true wait to it's all proven but like

at that moment I'm not going to lie I was really upset. [Applause]

[Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Look at this moment here Brian

Patta's image the slain hurricane teammate a banner that fans

made and the team gathered around the midfield. Initially

the photo of this moment looked to us like a team united

grieving one of their own but now one player sticks out

Rashad Jones somehow

he's made it to the front

row. He's on one knee looking down at Brian's face

on the banner

“knowing the rumors that we're swirling around the team at that time”

that photo started to look very different to us. When I see that photo as this would be like wow

you know what I'm saying I just get you chills man you know what I mean it's

it's less scary. See the question now is looking at that image

or we seeing a man who is praying for his teammate

or who is praying for forgiveness. After Rashad Jones was arrested

we were really waiting around to see what was the tipping point? What was that

missing piece of the puzzle that you said you needed to make an arrest? Were you anywhere

near the scene or Brian was told that night I wasn't in the air

you? What if I told you there was an outwitt as a photo

leading the scene right after? 35-year-old Rashad Jones a former defensive back

for the Cains was arrested in Lake City and Marion County earlier today

with the help of US marshals. After Brian is killed Rashad

had gone on to marry his high school sweetheart Ashenda. He has five children

and you know he's doing some coaching stuff he's you know

someone's still involved in football but you know seems to be living a pretty average life.

In August of 2021 Rashad Jones was arrested and was subsequently interviewed

for this crime. Have you already better than that? Yeah, we've gone through everything pocket

and in walks Miami-Dade police detective once a govia took over

this investigation from Miguel Dominguez who retired right after our lawsuit.

How many orders

did you get the best life?

Yeah. The approach that the detective is using at this point is really not a accusatory.

It's just an interview of the approach to begin with. What can you tell anybody whether this is your right?

I know we had to open dollar relationship okay. What happened? What has that mean

up enough? Who's teammates? I guess. We've got involved. So, I don't know

I guess you'll see all the females. I think Rashad wants to find out how much information what the detail is

what it is

eventually that the detective has

to share with him. He doesn't seem to be concerned about admitting that, you know, they've had

some ups and downs and downs. Yeah. Yeah. Because they haven't

put it into that into a context where him to have concerns about that. Rashad had somewhat of a

history of getting into altercations and there was another player that will tell place that Rashad

actually pulled a gun on him. Did you own a firearm back when you were a University of Miami? No.

You never had carries. Never.

Did you ever make it sound

like a gerative firearm? I don't know. I was a lot going on with it. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. If I see it, I don't know. If I see it, I don't know. If I see it, I don't know.

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If I see it, I don't know.

“When the morning of Brian's murder, Rashan is called into the coach's office, and he's told that he's failed his drug tests, which is going to lead to a suspension.”

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If I see it, I don't know. But there was a gap between about 640 and 740. And police believe Brian was shot around 7 o'clock. So when you got home, we turned up your phone. Yeah, what'd you do that?

I just didn't want to be from the outside world. Okay, I'm so scared of what we said. At the time of the shooting, police are contacted by someone who lives at the colony apartment complex by the name of Paul Connor. Paul Connor was a writing instructor at the University of Miami. On the night of the murder, Paul Connor was about to make a turn into the parking lot.

He hears a pop. And seconds later, he walks by a young African-American male going in the opposite direction. Police later showed Connor a photo line up. And Connor identified Roshan Jones as the man he saw that night. What about told you that it was not a witness inside you leaving the scene right after?

“You remember that old man that you crossed with in the sidewalk there?”

It was in the day where he came out with his meat. You heard identified it leaving the scene. I don't know what it was in there. He was shown 640 breaths. He was shown 640 breaths.

And you were one of them. And he immediately identified you. I came to you home just really bad luck. Really bad luck. I'm telling you I have nothing to do with this guy.

Nothing. I know 15 years of telling myself I didn't do well. I ain't no trying to convince myself I didn't. Nothing. His concurrence that yeah, it's just bad luck.

This is just bad luck, really bad luck for me. That's a lot more than bad luck. It's either fact or it's being trumped up against him. Why would all these people lie by Roshan Jones? I guess from the I used to do a lot.

I used to be a young and small.

Then I'm going to do a picking up on good and trying to kill nobody.

That's not in. Ashenda is brought into the interrogation area as well. And she comes to talk to Roshan after they've interviewed him. Did you see any guy there? I don't wait.

They said people are saying that he's seen me with a gun when I was a man. A lot. I've threatened Brian. When I was in Miami. He would hurt me.

He would hurt me. That's all I got. People are saying I love DNA. He can't maybe take my life but it's a killer. I say it, Lizzy.

“You have to literally show me how to stand it off in a fight for me.”

I know it applies for me to believe they use you as me. And that's it for me. You've got to start witness involved here. Identifying Roshan as the individual responsible. And it behooves the prosecution to ensure that that individual is safe

and willing to participate and capable of it. In the lead-up to the trial prosecution, I had been telling the court that they had been issues with tracking down Mr. Connor. They tried his phone number, they tried his address. He was nowhere to be found. They just presumed that he was dead.

But something here just didn't seem right. I find people for a living. I just didn't believe he was dead. But what I want to do is not to get to the studio. Mr. Bytag left her on the internet.

He's a master. You can say that you can get back to the court. You know what I mean? But you don't understand. That's it.

It's a misunderstanding. Do you just do what you want to do?

“And if you do what you want to do, you have to pay attention.”

That's it? Save. What do you want to do? I want to go back to the court. Now you have to go out.

So-called prison music. And so-called prison art.

It's always good. It's always funny. I've always said a lot about prison art.

And it's always funny. It's always funny. It's always funny. Mommy kept all of these. Mommy was so happy when she got this jersey.

Oh yeah. My son. She's seven. Nice son. And I see him holding it. That was the first jersey.

This tells me right here how much of a jokes to her. Oh, my God. I missed his boys. Here's stories. Are you watching documentary?

You see something like this. To think that one day that you would be that same family. Wanting justice. Wanting closure. And you're sitting there just waiting.

Waiting. Waiting. This is him as a baby. It's been a roller coaster ride for all of us. We were preparing. We talked about it.

And I was going to get pushed. You know, and didn't get pushed. It's been a roller coaster ride. If the family hadn't pushed. If there was no 2017 press conference with Jeanette Padeff,

there was no involvement of ESPN. Would we even be at this point? The former UN football player accused of killing a team

made charged with second degree murder

at his arrangement today. Jones has pleaded not guilty. The first substantive thing that happens in his case is a bond hearing, which is in 2022. One of the most interesting things about the bond hearing

was that we finally got to see for the first time, Paul Connor. They're writing instructor from Miami who claimed that he saw someone matching the description of Versailles Jones, leaving the apartment complex after the shooting.

“How would you describe the person that you saw in this corner?”

A young African American six feet. Just six foot-one tall approaching the game. What did you notice about the man in a station for each well? He smiled at me. He had a plain set of white teeth of no gold teeth.

The bond hearing lasted a few days. And at the end of it, the judge said that her Sean's bail had $850,000. But his family couldn't come up with the portion needed for bail. So he remained in the Metro West Attention Center in Miami.

And four years after his arrest,

“Sean was still in jail waiting for a trial.”

I got contacted by her Sean, because another client referred him. I went to see him at the jail, and he told me a little bit about his case about the fact that it had taken 15 years.

The case did not sit right with me, and I decided that I was going to represent him. We're Sean Jones has a fiercely passionate and dedicated defense team in his corner. Sarah Alvarez is 30 years old.

This is her first murder case ever. So when I came onto the case, the witness list of the state had filed was very incomplete. I realized that there was a lot left to do in terms of deposing these witnesses

and also tracking down other witnesses

who the state was saying they had never had contact with.

As it turned out, one witness was extremely difficult to track down. In the summer of 2025, the state attorney's office comes to a hearing and says something that is pretty shocking,

which is they can't locate their main eyewitness, which is Paul Conner. They couldn't find him.

“They said they had run him in all the records,”

databases, and we kept pushing and asking for evidence of this. The prosecution had been telling the court that they had been issues with tracking down Mr. Conner. They tried his phone number,

they tried his address. He was nowhere to be found. They just presumed that he was dead. As someone who does this for living and tracks people down,

I did not believe that Paul Conner was dead. Because when you die,

you create a paper trail.

Paul, a Levine, phone one of Mr. Conner's previous co-workers. She was so concerned that she called a welfare check to be done on him. Remember, this is a private individual

just calling up the Louisville Police Department to do this. Are you Paul? Yeah. Oh, how are you?

Yeah, I'm okay. Perfect. Thank you. We're doing well. A few weeks later,

producer Dan Aruda and I made a trip to Louisville to see for ourselves. We arrived at the address that both we and Miami-Dade had for Conner. Hi.

Are you a Paul Conner? Yeah. These were contacted by anyone in the restraining station. So Miami will come

state of attorney's office at all? No. Just before the murder trial for Brian Pada is about to start a key witness as found who police thought

was dead. It wasn't the police that discovered this key witness wasn't dead. It was ESPN.

I mean, that's just wild. 2020 reached out to the Miami police with specific questions about their investigation. They did not respond

to our requests for comment. So as the case finally heads to trial after all these years, all eyes are on that courtroom in Miami. Nearly 20 years into the deadly shooting

of a UM football player, it's time for trial for a teammate accused of the crime. This case got really personal for all of us. We were ready to take the gloves off

and throw down. Everyone out. Everyone out. Everyone out. Everyone out.

Everybody out. Everyone out. Out. Oh. [dramatic music]

So this is courtroom 401. It's really only used for the big trials. It's the same courtroom where Ted Bundy was tried. And they knew that the media would be interested in this case. [dramatic music]

The first day where testimony scheduled to begin, and here comes the pad of family, enforce into the courtroom. His brothers and sisters and his mom, Janette, who is in a wheelchair.

We've been preparing for the unknown, because this is the hardest thing

we've never gone through this before.

And to see them all come in and fill up two full rows in the gallery, it was powerful. They sat down and I think they bore witness.

“That's the best way to put this to what they hope is justice.”

The inescapable feeling here is just as delayed as just as tonight. [dramatic music] Say prosecutor say over the 15 or so years of this case, all of it is really pointed to the defendant. We are asking that you just pay close attention

to each and every witness who testifies.

that in the end points only to one person. The man sitting at that table with her. Roshan Jones. So for the prosecution,

“this case basically comes down to the relationship”

between Brian, Jada, and Roshan. All roads did not lead to Roshan Jones. Just because the government tells you that something is true does not make it so. Roshan looks as he's sitting at the table very professional.

He didn't really glance over at the family. He really kept his focus on his counsel. For 15 years, the police interview Roshan, along with other teammates and other students,

but they never really treat him like a suspect.

They don't bring him in for a sworn statement for 15 years. After he's already been arrested for this horrible crime. And an extremely emotional moment in the courtroom. You have Duane Hendrix, Brian's teammate, former roommate, testifying about the moment when he saw his friend,

lying, motionless, in front of their apartment. I noticed Brian on the ground, so I'd hopped out of the car. And I was like, "Yo, stop playing."

“He had a puddle of blood behind his head.”

That's when he hit me. He was in playing. And it wasn't a game anymore. Do you call me one from the same room? I tell people to this day.

That was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my life. It was a call that. It took all his mom and say that her youngest is dead.

When the prosecutor first started showing some of the photos

from the crime scene and some of the photos of Brian's body, it was a really emotional moment for the family. I mean, they were leaning forward. Trying to issue some of them turn their heads away. It clearly had an effect on them.

Dave Howell, Brian's teammate, testified about the hostility that he saw between Brian and Rashad over Jada. Did Brian and Rashad get in any other disputes? Yes. Were they overrated?

Yes. Did you see any of those disputes? I guess I did. Can you tell for yourself? I was in front of the cafeteria.

It was just words between the two of them. And they moved on. It was nothing physical. And former teammate Eric Montgomery Corps testified about the day that they came up to his dorm room.

Brian did a push to him. And he pushed him. I think he pushed him. He pushed him. And then he got on top of him.

And started headbutting him. And then I ended up grabbing Brian and putting him off. And Rashad got up and he walked out of the room. He was like, "Boy, you might as well go ahead and clip up." During Corps examination, the defense attempted to downplay

the statement clip up. You didn't actually believe that Mr. Jones is going to shoot anybody. Correct? No. You didn't take this as a serious threat.

No. After this fight that happened in your dorm room in the summer 2004, you thought that it was over at that point. Correct? There was no further beef.

Yes.

And you never heard anybody bring this fight up again.

Right? Not to my knowledge.

“But the key testimony came from that alleged eyewitness Paul Connor.”

I keep this very brief. I really just had one question, Bill. What did Rashad's team look like? You know about her 2006. So if you think about it, this entire case could possibly come down

to the description of someone's smile. He witnessed taking the sand today and the murder trial of Rashad Jones, a former UN professor detailing what he heard and he saw the nightbrime padda was shot and killed. The state plays for the jury.

I recorded testimony of Paul Connor from hearing in 2022. He was treated as regular testimony. He smiled at me. He had a plain set of white teeth, of no gold teeth. And that's about it.

And is this a fair and accurate representation of the sketch

that was created based upon your representation? Yes.

“The million dollar question in this is did the jury believe Paul Connor?”

But another witness, Bruce Johnson, who was a teammate of both Rashad and Brian, is called to testify. The defense takes this as an opportunity to question him about Rashad's team. I really just had one question, Bill. What did Rashad's team look like?

You know, not for a few thousands of years. They just wouldn't, everything wouldn't strike. He was jagged and kind of messed up. Would you describe that as a clean set of white teeth? No.

Now, these two statements are completely at odds with each other. Can you please introduce yourself to the jury and comment where you're going to play? Yes, my name is Wantsagovia. I'm a homicide investigator with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office. One of the final witnesses of the state called was Detective Wantsagovia.

And he had been assigned in 2020 to take over the case and his testimony was incredibly useful for the prosecution because it took all these little pieces of testimony from all these other people and essentially tied it together in a very effective narrative as to the motive, the means, the opportunity for Rashad and Jones

to kill Brian Patta. What information did he gather that led to getting an report? It was the threats accompanied with the display or talk of the same type of firearm that killed a victim. It was the phone records.

It was the identification of Mr. Connor and all the circumstances that happened the night of. The jury also got to hear of the post arrest the interrogation interview over Sean Jones. Let's talk about the alert.

Jator company comes up a lot during the investigation. It's at the first time you have any beef with Brian whatsoever.

“You know, that you can tell you remember that it was over in Jeta.”

Okay. You dated Jeta? No, we dated Jeta. Did you get some any relations? I'm sure there's more.

On Cross Examination, the defense press took over on whether or not was Sean ever owned a gun. You didn't have enough personal knowledge whatsoever and Mr. Jones actually owned a firearm that they couldn't do. Not legally.

Not legally. Right.

You have never seen Mr. Jones of the Parliament.

I've never seen him. The prosecution ends its case on the very graphic testimony of the medical examiner. I do. Who uses a model to describe the fatal injury

that takes Brian's life? The pathway of the blood to a mischief pod is body. What's on his left son? Several inches above his left ear. That was hard for the family.

It was an incredibly emotional way to end those five days of testimony. This time it's serious. We had so many other leads. All of which were more viable than Rashan.

Ultimately, the court ruled that these different viable theories be excluded. At this time, we had to put trust. Even without that, we felt so good about the case because they still didn't have anything.

And we trusted that a jury would feel similarly. I had to ask somebody next to me Did I hear what I thought I heard? This is where you're trying to indicate the application you can share that you do not wish to testify that I would call any witnesses on your behalf. And you had an opportunity to discuss that.

Yes. On the side, not to justify your mistakes.

“We were stunned. I think anybody there who was witnessing this was wondering what had happened.”

Both the state and the defendant have now rested their case. The Chinese people now present their final arguments. Remember, one of the worst days have your life. It has positive, your future is unsure. You don't have the girl. You're going to get kicked off the team.

Things are not going your way. And then it all just boils over. Does this look anything like Roshan Jones? Does this look anything like Roshan Jones? Nothing.

Paul Conner's selection is not reliable. It is not credible. Roshan Jones was not at the colony of apartments. Roshan Jones did not shoot him. Roshan Jones had nothing to do with his death.

Roshan Jones failed to drug test. He was at home at the time the Brian Paddle was killed. All I had to do is... This family has been put through so much for so long

and they get so close to what they believe is finally going to be adjusted for them.

I can't even imagine what they're going through. We are now in verdict watch as the jury evaluates the evidence and the murder of his teammate Brian Paddle. The only thing that is not a foregone conclusion here is what that jury is going to decide.

I've received your note indicating that you continue to be a deadlock.

“And so at this time, I will declare a mystery on a home jury.”

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank you for your time and consideration of this case. The breakdown was five for no guilty and one for guilty. And the person who was leaning to guilty was just unmoved. This has to be extremely difficult for the family and in particular, Jeanette Brian's mother.

She has called for just as for her son, youngest child. Anybody who has seen the video Jeanette running down the street, wearing Brian's jersey, yelling...

Give me my gun! Give me my gun! Give me my gun!

And then to juxtapose that with her being wheeled into an elevator, because she's so frail that she can't walk on her own, kept saying 20 years, 20 years.

“And she still has that same desperate plea in her voice.”

Just we were frustrated, but we're also resilient. We're going to make steadfast and confident, but we're going to get the answers that we need. What do you think is a gingerbread? That's a hard question to answer.

I'll be back right next door. There are no winners here. At the end of the day, we're still at the same place. We don't know who killed Brian. We don't know the truth, and I don't think we'll ever know the truth. The damage is dark.

The lives of multiple individuals have been completely ruined. This fate was really demoralizing and discouraging, not just for Miami Hurricanes football program, that fell into a precipitous decline after that. It was devastating for this city,

and particularly for the community that Brian came from,

which is always looking towards our athletes as role models,

as symbols of hope and opportunity. He did have such a love for the community that he was raised in, and he understood the importance of him making it. And when you have a young person who's from this area, and is able to advance not only the identity of little Haiti,

but become somewhat a ambassador of the culture,

“and his life is taken way before it's time.”

It's heartbreaking. Brian's pot is life in the tragedy of his experience, it's like a candle from the dark. And when that light is lost, it hurts us all. What's going on?

Hello? You know, I'll look at a picture, something, a get emotional, but then I'll think back how we suspend our times together, and the jokes he would crack, and you know, times we would spend, and just those memories deposit all the good stuff.

You know what I mean? You think of, oh man, he's not here anymore. You know, that's when the tears flow. A gentle giant. Loving individual.

Full of life, full of energy, positive energy. Someone who's truly missed. It's still hard for us today. A little bit after his death, when I dripped him by Brian, he was talking to people,

he was saying he's okay, I'm okay. I wasn't supposed to die. But I gotta go over another side. You guys won't see me anymore. God has let me end the door now. That was his words.

and it's bright light.

He walks in between. He looks.

And he waves. So I love everybody. I love everybody. And he hugs me. And it felt so real.

And a door shuts behind him.

And then that was it.

“You know, it's a dream that keeps Brian connected to his loved ones.”

His family's journey for justice will continue as the state is expected to retry Rochon Jones. So more to come, David.

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