Juju Chang

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A star player on a major college football team murdered near campus just a few months shy of the NFL draft.

Brian Pata was an outstanding defensive lineman with UM 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.

Other family and friends were overcome by the news.

In the weeks leading up to Brian Pata's death, his family had noticed some things that made them think that Brian thought something bad was going to happen to him.

He just spaced out, and his head was down the whole time, kept rubbing his hair, and his hair was in front of his face, just kept rubbing his head like this.

His spirit was awful.

He we don't know.

He couldn't explain it.

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 Moncour, decide that they're going to go register for spring classes.

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.

Just happened to be just me and Brian left the locker room, and then he received a 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 where the f*** I'm at.