Man Adds Details to Simpson Case : Investigation: Brentwood ice cream parlor manager says Nicole, her children and a man visited his shop the night she died.

Adding details of the last hours of Nicole Brown Simpson’s life, the manager of a Brentwood ice cream shop said Sunday that the ex-wife of O.J. Simpson had stopped in with her children and a young man for a snack sometime on the evening of June 12.

The observations of the store manager apparently have drawn intense interest from the Simpson defense team. Bill Chang, 21, who runs the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream parlor, said investigators hired by the defense interviewed him four times last week.

The bodies of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, with slashed throats and numerous stab wounds, were discovered outside her nearby Brentwood condominium hours after the visit to the ice cream parlor.

But Chang said the man with Nicole Simpson in the shop did not resemble news photos he had seen of Goldman.

The shop closes at 11 p.m. Sundays, Chang said. “I really don’t recall what time they were in here. It was a busy night. I didn’t have time to look at my watch,” he said.

The Simpson team, which was particularly interested in the time of the visit, apparently located Chang through an ice cream cup found at the murder scene. Neither police nor district attorney’s investigators have interviewed him, Chang said.

Simpson has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges and is scheduled to go on trial Sept. 19.

“I told them what I knew, but I didn’t think it would help them,” Chang said, referring to the questioning by defense investigators. “I served her ice cream and that was about it. Whatever happened after that I don’t know.”

Robert L. Shapiro, Simpson’s lead attorney, could not be reached for comment Sunday. A police spokesman and the district attorney’s office declined to comment on Chang’s statements.

Prosecutors have said the two were killed between 10:15 p.m. and 11 p.m. June 12. By 11 p.m., O.J. Simpson was on his way to the airport for a flight to Chicago.

His defense team has sought to show the killings occurred too late for him to have committed them.

On the night of her death, Nicole Simpson dined with family members at the Mezzaluna restaurant, directly across the street from Ben & Jerry’s. Goldman, who was working as a waiter at Mezzaluna the night he was killed, volunteered to take to Nicole Simpson’s condominium a pair of glasses left at the restaurant by someone in her group.