1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: In twenty twelve, sixteen year old Brian Herrera was murdered 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: in cold blood, shot while walking to a friend's house 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: to do homework. It happened in broad daylight on a 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: Saturday morning in Miami, Florida, but no one saw a thing, 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: or no one would say. 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 2: The call was horrible. I replayed over in my head 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 2: all the time. 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: It was a high school student that was just going 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 1: to do his homework at a friend's house. Despite investigator's efforts, 10 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: there were no suspects, no arrests, and in a community 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: where snitches get stitches, was more than just a saying 12 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: the case went cold. 13 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: All throughout these years, following back up with the detectives 14 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,319 Speaker 2: and they're still working on this and we're working on that. 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 2: But there's never been a person of interest. There had 16 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 2: never been anything. 17 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 3: But Brian's family refused to let his name fade. 18 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: I would ask my husband, do you let me just 19 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: let this go? He was like, no, keep fighting. 20 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: And then nearly a decade later, a call, a lead 21 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: and a case that was no longer. 22 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: Could We received a phone call that was bittersweet because 23 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: it's a call that we've been waiting for for a 24 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 2: very long time. 25 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: I'm endriques Antos, and this is Cold Case Files Miami, 26 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: where we tell the stories of victims like Brian Herrera 27 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: and the families who never stopped fighting for justice. 28 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 3: I sit over six hundred emails I did. 29 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 2: I had to you gotta trust the police, but you 30 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: gotta help make sure they'd. 31 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 3: Be held accountable too. And I have to say it, 32 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 3: and I will say it. The police officers who follow 33 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 3: every lead. 34 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 4: Once I went back to really take a look at it, 35 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 4: and this is it's all the fay Man's reading or 36 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 4: I realized, Man, I feel like we got a case. 37 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: Here, and those in the community who work to solve 38 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: these cases. 39 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 5: They will do whatever it takes on behalf of these 40 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 5: victims to go to court and fight for them, fight 41 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 5: for the voiceless and for the powerless. 42 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: Listen to Cold Case Files Miami on the iHeartRadio app, 43 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.