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When a college football player destined for the NFL is murdered, his mother questions whether police have done enough to solve the case. 20/20 and ESPN investigate.
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The shooting happened right down Southwest 77th Avenue here in the parking lot of Pat
as a partner building and tonight Miami-Dade police are searching for his killer.
Yeah, Brian Patta was a defensive star in Miami Hurricanes.
He was going to be in the NFL in just a few months.
I said, what do you mean they killed him?
Like, why?
What somebody do this?
It was just coming home.
I just got home from work.
And as I answered the phone, it was my mom.
And my mom shared with me, you haven't heard Sidney is dead.
I just paused.
And started screaming.
When Brian Patta's mother got to the scene and she was told that her son had been killed,
I mean it was devastating it.
It looked like one of those scenes you'd see in a movie of a mother just wailing and
it was heartbreak.
It was a scream of pain that was just coming from her soul and gut and I was like, oh my
god, this is real.
She hugged me.
She hugged me.
Sidney is gone.
Sidney is gone.
I was like, oh my.
I started to cry so bad.
My son is very good son.
Never have a problem.
We knew about it.
You know, what happened?
It's gone.
It's gone.
You're watching the rost of emotions.
You're watching someone deal with a tragedy in real time.
This is a very private emotional moment, but it's being 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 Patta and this is my story.
Brian Patta was larger than life.
His aura, it just stuck out.
He always gets everybody to kind of gravitate towards him.
We got those cameras like the year before and it was up to the camera.
So when 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
star football player.
Take on this shirt.
Brian was always filming.
He had to be in front of the cameras.
He had to be recording him dancing.
If you look at him, you know it may be a little intimidating, but he was a great person.
He had a great heart, great spirit.
His smile could just light up the room when he came in.
He made everybody laugh.
He had a soft heart and really loved people.
You could see this huge guy that looks, you know, this football player, but for me that
looked past that.
I knew they saw side of him.
That's the brother I remember.
Brian Paddock came from a big family.
He had an 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.
Like most parents, to be successful in this country, you know, you have the dream, the
American dream that come in, work hard.
It was a kind of struggle for my mom, you know, to think of parent home, you know, trying
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 never called Brian at home.
You never called him Brian.
He was very outside.
New of him as Brian, but we knew him as soon as he.
Brian padded 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 in the neighborhoods that
they lived in.
Sports was for us pretty much the only way to get to college, to afford college.
That's why we, part of the reason why we worked so hard at it.
When I first met Brian, I was just like, wow, this guy is 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 wouldn't stay in this region, he wouldn't 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 is the best team of all time.
Brian Pada was a high performing player on a team that was highly regarded.
A lot of people think he wouldn't have a long substantial career in the NFL.
With Brian, his biggest hope was to make it to the NFL, be as successful as possible
he 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, he'll just be laughing.
Like, what are you laughing at?
And he'll be listening to his message.
His mom just left for him, and she'd be like, boy, I dream you today.
It's like he used to make me laugh, too.
She babyed him, I mean, she loved him so much, and we all did.
Brian would be on the phone with his mom.
Every single day they talked, he always made sure he checked in with her.
This trajectory that Brian Pada was on was not his alone.
His mother, she was on this journey with him.
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 he...
trajectory was just derailed.
He's now exactly the same.
He's just saying hello.
Hello. Hello.
Somebody just said, the guy's on the ground.
I don't know what he's reading from, he's on the ground.
When police arrive, they start cordoning off the area.
At some point, Miami-Dade police realizes that they need an assistant
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.
It's a night of the shooting, there was just a lot of police lights, people in the area.
Everybody wanted to find out what happened.
And everybody was sort of 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, 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 at a couple of miles prior to Brian's house.
Amber was coming out of his house.
I was scared myself, and nobody knows what happened.
I thought somebody was trying to kill me, too.
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 for 30 podcasts.
We had a killer amongst us.
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 Patta was an outstanding defensive lineman with UM and was being talked about as an NFL prospect
until about 730 tonight when he was shot and killed in the parking lot of his apartment building.
A woman believed to be Patta's mother wearing a UM jersey with his number on it,
collapsed as she rushed to the scene.
Other family and friends were overcome by the news.
In the weeks leading up to Brian Patta'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 4th.
I cooked a huge meal for him.
My mom and I, he came over.
I just seemed kind of just really mellow quiet.
He just spaced out and his head was down the whole time kept rubbing his hair in his hair in his front of his face.
He just kept rubbing his head like this.
His spirit was off but we 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 Montcourt decided 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 of 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.
It 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 like f*** you.
If you want to come see me, come see me, you know what the f*** I'm at.
You f*** 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?
You straight?
That was the angriest 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 Ferdinand and he says to him, I'm going to 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, Jada Brody, says she heard a bang and people arguing.
Jada goes outside to investigate.
She sees Brian Patta laying face down on a sidewalk, feet from his car.
She thinks he's joking because he's his jokester and realizes that there's a pool of blood around his head.
There's police cars, fire rescue everywhere.
They basically gave me the quick overview of what had happened and told me that Mr. Patta 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 wound to the back of the head and it was a single shot.
Based upon the fact that we didn't find any shell casings, it was suspected that it would have been a smaller caliber revolver style handgun.
It was clearly not done as a robbery.
They found Brian's wallet. There were nine $100 bills still in it.
The cell phone, like no one had stolen anything.
To me, this might have been more in the line of a hit, a targeted assassination, if you will.
All through the night, the police canvassed 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 was an air protector. It was awful.
Who could have wanted a rising football star with a promising future? Dead.
Detectives began asking questions that night, 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.
This is Miami. There is a dangerous, sexy, cool reputation in this town.
Hey, this is Ryan Potter.
You had to get into the game.
And if you are a college football player at the University of Miami.
It's game time. I'm serious.
You are going to get caught up in that fast-living lifestyle very quickly.
Did you notice you boy? We could turn up. We'd better.
You know what I'm saying? Just showing y'all on my cards or whatnot.
The don't, baby.
I was Brian. Yeah, he was that flashy.
Check out on my inside. You check me out.
He was very flashy.
Back in the days, I used to do all the UM players cars.
He's brown. This is DJ Don't.
Brian came to the shop.
This is what he wanted right here. This is favorite color right here.
Candy Apple Gold, a serve look. He loved that.
Ryan's love of cars came during the time when a lot of kids his age were doing a lot of the same thing.
He had a great joy of buying old classic cars, fixing them up, and then flipping them on the internet.
Just showing y'all my work, what I could do to my cars.
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.
And the pros is opening up a car chop.
The gentleman to that Rick Ross.
We're not waiting for my problem right now.
He was one going south.
In 2006, MTV Cribs was a show that was still popular.
On this episode of MTV Cribs, NFL Edition.
Welcome, MTV Cribs.
I thought, well, this would be really cool.
We could start doing this with local athletes and sort of make it a local story.
I was working for the Miami Herald. I was a high school slash college football writer.
And because of my long relationship with 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 attached a microphone with a tape recorder to Brian's shirt and we recorded it.
I love y'all.
It's my crib. I'm Brian Potter.
In reverse of Miami, give us a tackle.
What's up?
If you walk in, it's just, you know, it's a townhouse.
It's too bad room to have a bathroom.
It's a living room.
You know, we got not that much stuff.
What?
It's decent for athletes.
I broke the TV.
I kind of spilled juice on it.
So no TV there, but the cable box.
Check it out in the kitchen.
You know, we keep it clean.
You know, I've got one dish in here.
One cup.
It goes up stairs to the room.
This is my room.
You know, it's an eye.
It's not, you know, spectacular.
Not like that.
But this is a little collage of me and my girl.
Jator Brody was at the time of Brian's death, his girlfriend.
They had been together for exactly a year.
She had moved into his apartment earlier that summer.
I introduced Brian to his girlfriend, Jator.
My name is Dave Howell and I was friends and teammates with Brian Potter.
We were at a on-campus party and he ended up noticing her from like afar.
And he was just like, you know, who is that?
I was like, oh, I know her.
I went to high school with her.
Her name is Jator.
He was just like, you know, can you hook us up and I introduce them.
Is Jator?
Yeah.
Brian was not, you know, some serial data and all that.
He was a typical college 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 Jator.
They had their fights.
They had their love.
They were just a typical college couple.
The day that he was killed the night before they were celebrating
the day when you were in the university.
So it seemed like they were.
You know, they were.
They were on cloud nine to me.
According to what she told detectives, Jator was in the apartment
cleaning out her dog's kennel.
She told Place 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.
Jator said she ran backup stairs to call 911.
You never know who might be a possible suspect.
And 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 Jator's family.
The police found that in the spring of 2006 Jator told her father,
Jerry, that Brian had broken up with her because he 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 Jator'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, Jator Brody's brother Jerome Brody
ends up getting arrested in Boston.
And as part of their 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.
Jator'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 the investigative team
looked into. Is there an ex-boyfriend that is upset that she left him?
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Brian Patta, a defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes.
Brian Patta was shot and killed.
Brian Patta was a great leader.
A selfless, fun loving kid. Teachers loved him.
At tragedy, we missed Brian Patta.
Brian was laid to rest at the New Birth Baptist Church in Miami.
The amount of people that was coming in, I think, was like over 2,000 people.
I remember a mom passing out crying.
Passed out completely. Yeah, completely passed out.
A lot of our teammates 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 made.
A banner that fans made.
And the team gathering around it at midfield.
That was rough.
It was just like numb.
You know, like you didn't feel like playing a football.
You know what I mean?
Like the team mate just got killed.
Months 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.
Just looking at that, it's supposed to be the best night of his life.
And this is the worst.
You got to bury him in it.
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 Mindy Hurricanes 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 kill Brian Patta?
In the hours after Brian's murder, the Mindy football team decided to bring all of the players back
to the athletic center, the Hex 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 on the team.
And that 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 buzzing at that time.
There 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.
Really didn't play very much.
I looked at him as like a cool young guy, jokes there.
He could tell 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, you know, get out the girls.
In the early days of the investigation, police came across a specific beef
that Brian had with Rashan.
And it was largely over Jada Brody, Brian's girlfriend.
Prior to Brian and Jada being in a relationship,
it was rumored that Rashan and Jada had some form of a relationship.
That is what the friction that was there between Brian and Rashan.
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 that put those two at odds
over who she liked, who she was dating and what her history was with both guys.
He just said that the guy kept trying to fight him.
And so they kept good to these little fights.
In 2004, there was an incident between Rashan 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 Rashan leaving out of the room.
We were just kind of like 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 didn'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.
Rashan ended up trying to, you know, leave out of the room
and then Brian ended up punching Rashan.
And me and Eric kind of looked at each other like,
did this really just escalate like that fast?
I broke it up when Rashan was walking out.
He told Brian he might as well go ahead and clip up.
They heard Rashan 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?
You're a **** out of my room.
Like, you know what I mean?
I'm about to go to sleep.
You know, I'll let you.
Rashan Jones threatened Brian.
So you never take anybody who threatened your life.
Lighted 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 Rashan.
Rashan 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.
There was no record of any physical evidence linking Rashan to the crime.
Clearly the name Rashan Jones came up,
but it was on a list of many names that we were looking at.
Initially, the police looked into a broad string of incidents
involving Miami football team,
but they weren't able to make any connection to Brian's 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 cellmate had allegedly confessed to him one night.
As part of vetting,
the police had the informant take a polygraph.
No arrests as of yet,
as police and Miami continue their investigation,
Brian Pada, senior defensive lineman for Miami,
gunned down at the age of 22.
The murder of Brian Pada took on
mythological proportions in this town.
It was like everybody had a different theory.
We learned that Brian had a busy life.
It wasn't just football and his girlfriend.
It 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 Pada's killer,
they needed to look for ties with the Zopound gang.
Zopound's a 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, there'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 the members of the Zopound gang
who told us that they were aware of Brian that they knew him.
The 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
with some pretty potentially dangerous characters.
It is not uncommon at all to see bad blood
lead to fist 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.
There was definitely a physical confrontation.
Brian's thrown 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 in 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 alleged 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 Patta.
They went and actually administered a lie detector test
and the 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 7, 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 requests for comment.
Years later, I was able to actually track down
the alleged confessor in manual 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,
you remember where you were
in November?
I was nowhere. I don't know murder.
I don't know anything about no murder.
They wrote he had an alibi.
He was in jail for stealing a dirt bike
and an armed robbery.
There was all this talk of jailhouse confessions
and tales of professional hints
all of this just swirled
because there was just this emptiness
that the police couldn't fill.
You hear this person's a lead person
and next week someone else is a lead 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 try to call a detective to ask him questions.
They don't want to pick up the phone
and we leave the message. They don't call back.
It feels like Miami-Dade needed to do something new.
Their hand was almost forced
into 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.
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Welcome inside Radio City Music Hall.
The 2007 NFL Draft is now open.
In April of 2007, the NFL Draft was held
at Radio City Music Hall.
The Chicago Bears take Greg Olson, Titan, Miami.
I've seen those guys that he knew
and I'm getting picked.
It was real sad to watch.
Introduce yourself, eh?
I am Greg Olson.
How you doing, Patrick?
Greg Olson and Brian were good friends on the team.
After Brian's death, Greg Olson went on to have
an incredible NFL career
and a long broadcast career after.
They were really good friends.
They were really good friends.
They were really good friends.
They were really good friends.
It reminded 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 March of 2017.
And the family is holding a joint press conference
with Miami-Dade PD.
That's it, that's it.
Yes, that's it.
We don't have that thing for my son.
Bryan's mother turns very accusatory
towards Miami-Dade police.
They don't work and they can't do what?
This is damn no way!
They're not just saying something, it's bad for me.
I think it was the pressure from the family that finally prompted the Miami-D police department
to reach out to the media to 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 in a
adult now. Maybe they'll do the right thing and make that one phone call that we need.
So in the summer of 2017, Miami-Dade 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. You know, 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 not a great thing. Yeah, that sounds awesome.
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 wasn't an argument or
anything? We don't know if he had bad blood with anybody, as right now we really don't have a motive.
One of the things that really drives me in 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 evidence 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,
we can't disclose. 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 perceived Miami-D's police work.
Their 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,
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 basic omissions and errors in this 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 text from what was available on the physical phone?
I believe there was text messaging about that. That was the old-style flip phones,
but the old push-to-top phones were the old, the correct things that I believe it was texting.
By the time we went back to them a year later, we 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
Delner, 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 call investigated?
I have to remember that individual's name. I don't think I personally interviewed him.
Obviously, that's somebody that would like to speak to also.
After we all got the news that Brian passed away, I immediately told the 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've never heard from them ever again.
The caller that Chris Delner had overheard is a cause for concern in that it 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-Dade police
turned on the very people that they had recruited into this effort to help solve this cold case.
ESPN decided that the only way to try to get an unredacted copy of the files was to sue Miami-Dade
police. So we're here on the case of ESPN Inc versus Miami-D County at all case number 2020,
5029 C-01. 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 the responsible person.
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 Rashon Jones. We knew that was important. They forgot
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 Rashon
Jones a suspect from the beginning. In November of 2020, our investigative team decided that
it was ready to publish something with everything that 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 help her clean the grave site.
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.
While interviewing the family, we learn that every year they held a vigil on the anniversary of
Brian's murder at his gravestone. We try to keep this case active as much as we can.
13 years later, you realize nothing's been really done. Somebody just killed him like this.
It's not right. One day, two gonna 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 taken the case as far
as we could to that point. That's when the digital story came out.
The family was so appreciative that Brian's name was finally being talked about again.
It's a pressure. It seemed we'd 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
Lyman, and it remains unsolved to this day. We 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
Rashon 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 Rashon Jones. There was pretty open conflict between the two of them.
After reading, it's been article, and then 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 being Rashon. I received a voicemail from Etrick, Brian's older brother.
Hey, Dan, good morning. He didn't have really good. I think they're about to make an arrest soon.
Nine months after our story comes out, we get word that the Miami-Dade police department is moving
to arrest Rashon Jones. I believe one of the catalysts was the ESPN article that came out. I think also
the state prosecutor also gets a little more aggressive in his approach towards arresting someone.
They show up at a Dollar Tree Warehouse in O'Call floor where he's working and they're waiting for him
when he leaves work. And he's arrested. It's under arrest. Another exclusive tonight. The wife
of a former UM football player coming to his defense after he was arrested for murder. I heard them say
Rashon Jones, put your phone down, you're under arrest. Rashon Jones' wife says he says he knows nothing
about that night and doesn't know who killed Brian Patta. He's not as person in their China
for trade. 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 cute. He's not a murderer. He's not.
An arrest in the 15-year-old cold case, the 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-year-old Rashon 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 till it's all proven but like at that moment, I'm not gonna lie, I was really upset.
Look at this moment here, Brian Patta's image, the slain hurricane team made,
a banner that fans made and the team gathering around it at 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, Rashon 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 were swirling around the team at that time,
that photo started to look very different to us. When I see that photo,
I just feel like wow, you know what I'm saying? I just gave you chills man, you know what I mean?
It's a lot of scary. So the question now is looking at that image,
are we seeing a man who is praying for his teammate or who is praying for forgiveness?
After Rashon 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 where Brian was still that night?
I wasn't even here either. What about told you there was an eyewitness
that saw you leaning the scene right after?
35-year-old Rashon Jones, a former defensive back for the Canes, was arrested in Lake City and
Marion County earlier today with the help of U.S. Marshals.
After Brian is killed, Rashon had gone on to marry his high school sweetheart Aschenda. He has five
children and he's doing some coaching stuff. He's somewhat still involved in football,
but it seems to be living a pretty average life.
In August of 2021, Rashon Jones was arrested and was subsequently interviewed and interrogated
for this crime. Have you already met him?
Yeah, we've gone through everything, pockets and stuff.
And in walks Miami-Dade, police detective, Wantsagovia, who took over this investigation
from Miguel Dominguez, who retired right after our lawsuit.
The approach that the detective is using at this point is really not accusatory.
It's just an interview approach to begin with.
I think Rashon 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 they've had some ups and downs.
Not yet, because they haven't put it into that into a context for him to have concerns about that.
Rashon had somewhat of a history of getting into altercations and there was another player that
would tell police that Rashon actually pulled a gun on him.
Did you own a firearm back when you were at University of Miami?
You never had carries, never.
Did you ever make it sound like you carried a firearm?
I don't know.
I was a lot going on with it.
I don't remember if I see it.
I don't know if we see a carrying firearm.
Most likely the realization is they're trying to connect me to a weapon that's connected to the
homicide.
And all of a sudden he starts stammering.
And you can see that he's stamping about that.
He's trying to go back through the files and his memory.
On the morning of Brian's murder, Rashon 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.
Miami-Dade pulled phone records for Rashon Jones, which show that at 3 p.m.
On the day of the murder, Rashon activated a new phone number.
One thing that stood out when we finally got to look at his phone records was that there were 56
calls, but there was a gap between about 640 and 740.
And police believe Brian was shot around 7 o'clock.
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 lineup and Connor identified
Rashon Jones as the man he saw that night.
I can't explain to you.
I don't know.
Just really bad luck?
Really bad luck.
I'm telling you I have nothing to do with you've got murder.
Nothing.
I know 15 years of telling myself I didn't do it or I ain't no trying to convince myself,
but it's 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 about Rashon?
I'd say it's from the, I'd say it's from the, I used to, I used to be a young and wild.
So I guess I just didn't, but protected they got only of how old I was.
But then I got nothing to do with picking up a girl and trying to kill nobody,
own nobody, that's not in me.
Ashenda is brought into the interrogation area as well,
and she comes to talk to Rashon after they've interviewed him.
Do you see how they got the hour wait?
They said if people threw in that issue,
they wouldn't come when I was in life.
A lot of up great and broad when I was in life.
People heard me threaten.
That's all they got?
People heard me.
Yeah, they got the DNA.
You can't maybe take my husband as a killer.
I say it, Lizzy.
You have to literally show me how to spend it up in a body for me to believe
that he killed his men.
I love you.
You got a star witness involved here,
identifying Rashon 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'd 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.
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Mommy kept all of these.
Mommy was so happy when she got this jersey.
Yeah.
My son.
She's seven.
My son.
And I see him holding it.
That was the first jersey.
This tells me right here how much of a joke is there he wrote?
Oh my god.
I missed his boy.
You hear stories, are you watch a documentary?
You see something like this.
To think that one day that you'd 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 rollercoaster ride for all of us.
We're preparing. We talk about it.
It almost let me get pushed.
You know, it didn't get pushed and pushed.
It's been a rollercoaster ride.
If the family hadn't pushed,
if there was no 2017 press conference with Jeanette Pate,
if there was no involvement of ESPN,
would we even be at this point?
The former UM football player accused of killing a team
may charge 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 Conner.
The writing instructor from Miami
who claimed that he saw someone matching the description
of Rashon Jones leaving the apartment complex after the shooting.
How would you describe the person that you saw Mr. Conner?
A young F.
American six feet, just six foot one tall approaching the gate.
What did you notice about the man in the station for you?
Well, he smiled at me.
He had a clean set of white teeth, no gold teeth.
The bond hearing lasted a few days,
and at the end of it, the judge said Rashon's bail
at $850,000, but his family couldn't come up
with the portion needed for bail,
so he remained in the Metro West Detention Center in Miami.
Time passed, and four years after his arrest,
Rashon was still in jail waiting for a trial.
I got contacted by Rashon 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.
Rashon 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 that 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 Connor.
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. Connor.
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 a living and tracks people down,
I did not believe that Paul Connor was dead,
because when you die, you create a paper trail.
Paula Levine phoned one of Mr. Connor's previous co-workers.
She was so concerned that she called a well-for-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.
All right, thank you.
We're going.
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 Connor.
Hi, are you Paul Connor?
Yeah.
These are contacted by anyone recently.
So, Miami State Attorney's Office at all.
Just before the murder trial for Brian Pada is about to start,
a key witness is 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 after 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 it out.
Out.
So, this is courtroom 401.
It's really only used for the big trials.
It's the same courtroom where Todd Bundy was tried.
And they knew that the media would be interested in this case.
The first day where testimony scheduled to begin,
here comes the Pada family in force into the courtroom.
His brothers and sisters and his mom,
Jeanette, 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.
I mean, that's the best way to put this to what they hope is justice.
The inescapable feeling here is justice delayed is justice denied.
State prosecutors say over the 15 or so years of this case,
all evidence really pointed to the defendant.
We are asking that you just pay close attention to each and every witness who testifies.
Because each person will provide a piece of evidence that in the end points only to one person.
The man sitting at the 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 itself.
Roshan looked 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 Dwayne Hendrix, Brian's teammate,
former roommate, testifying about the moment when he saw his friend,
line, motionless in front of their apartment.
I noticed Brian on the ground, so I'd hopped out of the car.
And I was like, you don't stop playing.
And a puddle of blood behind his head, that's when it hit me.
It was, well, he wasn't playing.
And it wasn't a game anymore.
Did you call anyone from this neighborhood?
I tell people to this day, that was the hardest thing I've ever
have to do in my life. It was a corner.
It took all his mind 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, they were grabbing tissue, some of them turned 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
Roshan over Jada. Did Brian and Roshan get any other disputes?
Yes. Were they over Jada?
Yes. Did you see any of those disputes?
Yes, I did.
He talked, but he's not.
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 Moncourt testified about the day that they came up to his dorm room.
Brian did a push them and he pushed them and I think he punched them, pushed them and punched them.
And then he got on top of them and started headbuttting them.
And then I ended up grabbing Brian and putting them off and Roshan got up and he walked out of
room and he was like, boy, you might as well go ahead and clip up.
During course examination, the defense attempted to downplay the statement, clip up.
You didn't actually believe that Mr. John was 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 of 2004, you thought that it was over at that point, correct?
There was a hell for the 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 Conner.
I keep this very brief. I really just have one question for you.
What did Roshan's team look like in about a few thousand incidents?
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 in the murder trial of Roshan Jones, a former U.M.
professor detailing what he heard and saw the night Brian Pada was shot and killed.
The state plays for the jury a recorded testimony of Paul Conner from Hearing in 2022.
He was treated as regular testimony.
He smiled at me. He had a plain set of white teeth, no gold teeth.
And that's about it. I described him to the forensic artist.
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 Conner?
But another witness, Bruce Johnson, who was a teammate of both Roshan and Brian, is called
to testify. The defense takes this as an opportunity to question him about Roshan's team.
I really just have one question for you all. What did Roshan's team look like?
In November of 2016?
They just wouldn't, everything wouldn't strike. It was Jay, they kind of messed up.
Would you describe them 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 tell them where you're going?
Yes, my name is Wonsegovia. I'm a homicide investigator with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office.
One of the final witnesses at the state called was Detective Wonsegovia.
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 Roshan Jones to kill Brian Pattoff.
What information did you gather that led to you getting in our form?
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 circumstantial
stuff that happened the night of. The jury also got to hear of the post arrest and
interrogation interview of Roshan Jones. Let's talk about Jada a little bit.
Jada comes in and comes up a lot during the investigation. It's had the first time that you
have any beef with Brian Wonsegover. Yeah. That you remember. That was over at Jada.
Yeah. You dated Jada? Never dated Jada. Did you guys have any relations?
On cross-examination, the defense pressed Sagovia on whether or not Roshan ever owned a gun.
You have no personal knowledge whatsoever that Mr. Jones actually owned a firearm that
not legally. Not legally? Right. You have never seen Mr. Jones with a firearm. 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 bullet to Mr. Pat's body was from 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.
We had so many other leads, all of which were more viable than Roshan.
Ultimately, the court ruled that these different viable theories be excluded.
At this time, it had been addressed. 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?
We were stunned. I think anybody there who was witnessing this was wondering what had happened.
You'd remember one of the worst days of your life. It has positive, your future's 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 Apartments. Roshan Jones did not shoot him.
Roshan Jones had nothing to do with his death.
Roshan Jones failed a drug test. He was at home at the time that Brian Paddle was killed.
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 in 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. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I've received your note.
I received your note indicating that you continue to be a deadlocked, and so at this time I will
declare a mistrial in a home jury. Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank you for your time and
consideration of this case. The breakdown was five for not 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 justice for her son, her youngest child.
Anybody who's seen the video, Jeanette, running down the street, wearing Brian's jersey, yelling.
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 will frustrate, but we're also resilient. We're going to
remain steadfast and confident that we're going to get the answers that we need.
What do you think of the huge difference? That's a hard question to answer.
I'll be back for the next one.
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 done. The lives of multiple individuals have been completely ruined.
This fate was really demoralizing and discouraging not just for
the Mindy 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. 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 of an ambassador, not the culture, and his life is
taken way before it's time. It's heartbreaking. Brian's part of his life and the tragedy of his
experience is like a candle from the dark, and when that light is lost, it hurts us all.
What's going on? Hello?
You know, look at a picture, something, a good emotional, but then I'll think back how we
suspend our times together, and the jokes he would crack, and the times we would spend, and just
those memories, the positive, all the good stuff, you know, that you think of, oh man, he's not
here anymore, you know, that's when the tear is full. 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, I mean, I dreamt about Brian, he was talking to people, he was saying
he's okay, I'm okay, I wasn't supposed to die, but I got to go over another side. You guys
won't see me anymore. God has let me end the door now. That was his words. Then a big
purple door opened, and it's bright light, and 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.
In and the 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 Rashon Jones.
So more to come, David, for additional information on this story, you can listen to the 30-430
podcast Murder at the U, which chronicles ESPN's eight-year investigation into the case.
That's our program for tonight. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Jebra Roberts.
And I'm David Neur from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good night.
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