Paula Levine

From the very beginning of our reporting, we knew the Pata family had a particular suspect in mind for who killed Brian.

This came in our first conversation with Edric Pata in 2017.

In our investigation, multiple suspects emerged from different scenarios.

There was a nightclub fight with suspected gang members, Brian's alleged connection to the Zopan leader, Ali Adam, and potentially his girlfriend's twin brother.

But this theory, that a teammate killed Brian, it had our attention from the beginning.

At first, Brian's brothers, Edrick and Edwin, didn't want to implicate this teammate by name.

But over time, they eventually did share a name with producer Dan Arruda.

Did he mention having problems with anybody on the team?

Yeah.

The Pata family was convinced that Brian was killed by his teammate, Rashawn Jones.

Edrick told us his suspicion started after a conversation with a former Hurricanes player.

When was the first time you remember someone saying to you, or you guys putting together that Rashawn was the one that pulled the trigger?

This is from former teammates.

But could a teammate really have killed Brian in cold blood?

As we dug deeper, we concluded that only one of two things could be true.

Either Rashawn Jones killed Brian Pata or someone else killed Brian and Rashawn fell victim to a very unfortunate set of circumstances.

I'm Paula Levine.

From 30 for 30 Podcasts, this is Murder at the U. Episode 4, The Teammate.

After the Padas identified Rashawn Jones by name in 2018, our reporting team tried to learn everything we could about him.

Rashawn was in his junior year when Brian Patta was murdered.