Willie Williams

At some point, Chris Zellner's name was mentioned, and I was able to sit down with him.

Zellner was a teammate of Brian's.

They had met when Brian hosted him on his initial recruiting trip to Miami.

Chris remembers getting ready to go to class.

He had a night class at the time.

And he was just about to leave.

And he gets a call that the entire team is being summoned back to the HEC Center, which is the football facility.

Like, I just saw him.

Once Chris hears the news, he immediately remembers something that happened earlier that afternoon in the locker room and tells his coaches he wants to speak to the police.

He remembers being in the locker room after practice, and for some reason, he and Brian are some of the last players left in there.

And Brian gets a phone call.

About an hour, maybe 90 minutes before the murder.

Chris overheard Brian get in a very heated conversation with someone on the other end of the line.

According to Chris, he just shook it off like nothing ever happened.

So he remembers talking to Coach Mario Cristobal.

who at the time was an offensive line coach, that he needed to talk to the police.

Well, while it was still fresh in my mind, I wanted to call the team and debrief them with everything that I had just heard.

I think it's clear that Chris thought that was an extremely important phone call because he says the first thing he did when he heard Brian was killed was he hearkened back to that call and made sure when he got back to the heck center, he found Coach Cristobal and told him, I want to talk to the police.

So I think it's clear that he told the police and he said he only talked to them once and

But there's no doubt in my mind that whoever was on the other end of that phone call had something to do with Brian's murder.