Paula Levine

And Brian was the closest person that he could think of.

Why not?

I'll never, ever believe that.

Because Pata had nothing to do with him testing positive again.

Nothing.

I don't know.

There's some people that I would tell you, sure, yeah.

He was raised by, you know, his grandmother and then his mom.

So it's not like he was raised with, you know, like thugs and, you know...

In a violent household, he wasn't.

Well, I think you hit it on the head, Sherry.

I think the reason so many people are able to believe so easily is because that window that Brian was murdered... Was when he was missing, yeah, on a horrible day for him.

So Sherry's version of events is that this is just a really terrible coincidence for Rashawn.

That's right.

She believes if Rashawn had been with her or with anyone else...

that could give him an alibi, none of this would have happened.

Sherry Abramson could be right about Rashawn's innocence.

But some of what she told us doesn't line up with the information we have from Rashawn's phone records.

They show that Sherry and Rashawn were in touch a number of times that night, starting before Brian's death at 7 p.m.

And there's no evidence of a missed call from Sherry after news of the murder had started to spread.