Introducing Cold Case Files: Miami

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In twenty twelve, sixteen year old Brian Herrera was murdered
in cold blood, shot while walking to a friend's house
to do homework. It happened in broad daylight on a
Saturday morning in Miami, Florida, but no one saw a thing,
or no one would say.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
The call was horrible. I replayed over in my head
all the time.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
It was a high school student that was just going
to do his homework at a friend's house. Despite investigator's efforts,
there were no suspects, no arrests, and in a community
where snitches get stitches, was more than just a saying
the case went cold.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
All throughout these years, following back up with the detectives
and they're still working on this and we're working on that.
But there's never been a person of interest. There had
never been anything.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
But Brian's family refused to let his name fade.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I would ask my husband, do you let me just
let this go? He was like, no, keep fighting.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
And then nearly a decade later, a call, a lead
and a case that was no longer.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Could We received a phone call that was bittersweet because
it's a call that we've been waiting for for a
very long time.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm endriques Antos, and this is Cold Case Files Miami,
where we tell the stories of victims like Brian Herrera
and the families who never stopped fighting for justice.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I sit over six hundred emails I did.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I had to you gotta trust the police, but you
gotta help make sure they'd.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Be held accountable too. And I have to say it,
and I will say it. The police officers who follow
every lead.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Once I went back to really take a look at it,
and this is it's all the fay Man's reading or
I realized, Man, I feel like we got a case.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Here, and those in the community who work to solve
these cases.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
They will do whatever it takes on behalf of these
victims to go to court and fight for them, fight
for the voiceless and for the powerless.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
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