Paula Levine

How are you, man?

Good.

Is this a good time to talk?

What did you tell him about our story?

I basically told him we were reporting on what had happened to Brian Pata.

Scott didn't know we'd been hearing rumors about Rashawn, and I definitely hadn't mentioned to him before that we knew about the overheard phone call.

As you were talking to him, did that phone call come up?

Yeah, after quite a bit of coaxing and reassuring, he eventually told me that the student athlete who had received the call was a University of Miami baseball player named Mike Sanders.

That player was Rashawn Jones, is that right?

So what happened after that?

Well, he wanted to end the conversation right then and there.

But fortunately, I got him to agree to meet me later for an unrecorded conversation face to face.

And when you sat down with Scott, what did he tell you?

Che Scott told me that at the time he was roommates with another football player on the team.

The night of Brian's murder, Mike Sanders comes by the apartment to check on the football player because news of Brian's death has been announced everywhere.

So Mike comes by just to make sure that the player is okay.

While Mike is in the apartment, Mike gets a call from Rashawn Jones.

Che overhears this conversation and it sounds like Rashawn is asking Mike for money.

I think Scott believed that Rashawn was trying to gather money up so he can get out of town.

A lot of guys that night were worried for their own safety.