Dan Arruda

I don't know

what the police officers expected to get from that press conference.

But I can almost guarantee that it wasn't this.

So in September and October, I really started to dig in and do a lot more research on Brian, on the murder, and then went down towards the end of 2017.

I'm a feature producer with ESPN and I've been living in South Florida since 2015.

I clearly remember it being a national sports story, and it led SportsCenter for several days.

Brian Pata, senior defensive lineman for Miami, gunned down yesterday at the age of 22.

I literally just began to pile up interview after interview and just try to gain a stronger kind of understanding of who Brian was and how big, for lack of a better word, his life was and how complicated and layered it was.

Brian was the youngest of nine siblings.

In the spring of 2018, I interviewed several family members, including Brian's mother, Jeanette, and his twin older brothers, Edric and Edwin.

They were the closest in age to Brian, only two years older.

We would walk to school together, we would play football together, we would do everything together.

I think the first thing you notice about Edwin and Edrick is their size.

These are two guys who played collegiate football and they carry a certain swagger and confidence with them.

I think the second thing you'll notice is just how kind they are.

Here I am, I'm coming into their lives, asking about the worst memory of their life.

There's every chance they'll be guarded and wary about sharing their thoughts with me.

But they were as open and as honest as anyone could have hoped for.

So for the weeks and months after the shooting, police really... Tight-lipped.

Tight-lipped.