Paula Levine

Jeanette raised Brian and his siblings in Little Haiti, a community in northern Miami with one of the largest concentrations of Haitian Americans in the country.

In the 80s and 90s, if there was a headline from Little Haiti, chances are it was a story about crime.

The truth is, the family had always feared one of them would die young.

They just never thought it would be Brian.

I expected one of us to get killed.

And I remember saying to myself, when I got to college, I was like, my goodness, thank God that nobody got killed.

I said all the time, like, man, nine of us and nobody got killed, especially with our older brothers, man.

And you would never think that the last child in college, his senior year, would get killed.

You would never think it, especially because Brian had been on track to be a football star.

For the Padas, football was supposed to be a way out of Little Haiti.

So Edwin played at Florida International University and Florida State.

Edrick played two seasons at a junior college in San Jose before transferring to Virginia Union University.

And Brian, of course, chose the University of Miami.

Brian would join the University of Miami at a high point for that school's football program, a program that took kids like Brian from Miami's neighborhoods and turned them into NFL stars, a program known simply as the U.

When you drive from downtown Miami to Coral Gables, it's like you've traveled to a different, more affluent world.

Luxury cars fill up parking lots.

There are fountains in the middle of the roundabouts.

and well-manicured lawns surround giant Mediterranean-style houses.

Coral Gables is its own city, a city built around a medium-sized private university, the University of Miami.

Billy Corbin is a lifelong Miamian.