Paula Levine

Police did try to figure out who Brian fought with that night, but they don't seem to have followed up on the tip about the West Side Boys.

Although we tried many times over the past eight years to arrange an interview, Willie would not speak with us for this series.

But based on Willie's account in the police report, Brian had called his people to try to get the beef squashed.

Who had he called?

Possibly this guy.

In the mid-90s, Ollie Adam co-founded a street gang based in Little Haiti called Zopound.

The word zo comes from the Haitian Creole word for bone.

Adam says Zopound got into the drug trade when he and a friend stole a shipment of drugs coming into the Port of Miami.

From boosting drugs meant for Cuban gangs, Zopound moved on to flying in their own shipments of cocaine from Colombia to Haiti and then bringing them to Miami.

That brought Zopound into conflict with other Miami drug gangs.

The feds eventually caught up with Adam.

He served nearly 18 years in federal custody before his release in 2024.

We spoke to him after he got out.

Adam remained plugged into Miami's Haitian community even as his business expanded.

He said he first met Brian at a high school football game.

At the time, Adam was promoting a record label he called House of Fire, giving label swag to the players.

I give out House of Fire t-shirts about them.

Adam said he kept an eye on Brian's rise from Central High to the University of Miami.

After he went to UM, Brian stayed in touch with Adam.

Brian told Adam that he was majoring in criminology.