Paula Levine

Willie had been a star linebacker in high school with a clear route to the NFL.

When he arrived at UM, he became notorious for being a hard partier.

By all accounts, Willie was cocky.

All through high school, he had scrapes with the law.

He resisted authority.

And when he was out at the club, Willie was not one to back down from a fight.

And neither was Brian.

On May 13th, six months before the murder, Willie and Brian were out at a club Shinozhi owned in Coconut Grove.

Brian's brother Edwin told us he got a call from Brian the next morning.

Brian's brother, Edrick, told police that Brian beat someone up and someone else in the fight got stabbed or cut with a razor blade.

Here, Edwin refers to Brian by his middle name, Sidney.

After everyone got kicked out of the club, police reportedly came to break up the fight in the parking lot.

As Brian and Willie were leaving, someone called out after them, we're going to get you.

Brian's brother Fednall was in the club that night.

He told the cops that the guys they fought belonged to a gang called the West Side Boys.

Could someone from this fight have come back to kill Brian for revenge six months later?

We asked Brian's teammates if he'd seemed nervous after that.

Quarterback Kyle Wright said he'd heard the story of the fight from Brian.

Still, after Brian's murder, Kyle thought back to that story.

Investigators seemed to take this lead seriously.