Juju Chang

One of the tips that came in to the Miami-Dade police was that if they wanted to find Brian Pata's killer, they needed to look for ties with the Zopound gang.

Zopan's a well-known gang in the Miami area.

They were notorious for doing crimes of great violence.

Zopan was featured as one of the bad guys in one of the Will Smith, Martin Lawrence bad boys movies.

There is no indication that Brian was a member of this gang, but there were members of the Zopound gang who told us that they were aware of Brian, that they knew him.

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's throwing 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, you know, someone's got a hit out on us.

The club life investigation didn't seem to go anywhere.

But then a few months later, the police got another promising lead, an 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 Emmanuel Jones.

And Emmanuel 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 Pata.

Back in 2007, police had quickly ruled Emmanuel Jones out as a suspect.

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.