Paula Levine
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Remember, at the scene of the murder, former prosecutor Herbert Walker thought it might be a targeted killing.
Detectives talked to Uncle Sean Shannazzi about that fight, too.
He wasn't at the club that night, but he'd heard about it from his manager.
He told police he didn't think the fight would have led to Brian's killing.
If anything, he said, the other guys might want to get the person who started the fight.
But by the time of the murder, Willie Williams wasn't in Miami anymore.
Two months after the fight, and only a month before the football season started, he transferred to a community college in Los Angeles.
Detectives interviewed Willie about the fight.
They wrote about their conversation in the police report.
He told them he'd been scared.
He said over the course of that fall, he had heard from three different sources that the guys they'd fought with had ordered a hit on him and Brian.
The month before the murder, Willie called Brian from California to tell him that he was in danger.
When Brian picked up his cell phone, he was out with his girlfriend Jada at a movie.
Brian told Willie, "'I will handle it.
My people know their people.'"
The next day, Brian called Willie back and told him, I took care of it.
But according to Jada's interview with Detective Dominguez, Brian was nervous after that.
She told Dominguez that he taped over the vanity plate for his SUV because the plate spelled out Pata.
And as we know, by this time, Brian was sleeping in his closet with his guns.