Lester Holt

That's 11 years after the shooting.

Let's take a listen to a clip of that presser from Local 10, an ABC affiliate.

We believe that somebody has to know who was involved.

If you know anything, just do the right thing.

So, Jay, the case seemed really stuck, but then a team of reporters at ESPN started digging into it.

Is there a sense that they were somehow able to shake things loose?

Yeah, there was, Lester.

One of the big things they uncovered

was that investigators had person of interest in the case from very early on, none other than Brian's teammate, Rashawn Jones.

Yeah, not long after this all came out, Rashawn Jones was arrested.

Did investigators explain what they thought Jones' alleged motive might have been?

Well, in the arrest warrant, they shared that there was tension between Brian and Rashawn, and they suggested that Jones was envious of Brian, that Brian was doing better in his career.

And remember Brian's girlfriend who discovered his body, Jada Brody?

Well, it turns out that Jones had been interested in her at one point, and investigators say that was just one more reason for Jones to be jealous of Brian.

Did investigators find any forensic or physical evidence connecting Jones to the crime?

No, there really wasn't much at this crime scene.

They did have a little bit of cell phone evidence, but keep in mind this was back in 2006.

So cell phone technology was, relatively speaking, rudimentary.

But one of the biggest breaks they got was an eyewitness who placed Jones at the scene.

It was a professor who lived in the same apartment complex as Brian, and he said he heard a shot that night.