Mercer University basketball player Jibri Bryan was shot in the head and killed on Tuesday.
The Macon Telegraph reports the 23-year-old was found in the driver’s seat of a Chevy Monte Carlo, after being shot at 4 p.m. in a busy corner of College Street in the parking lot of a downtown convenience store in Macon, Georgia. Another man, possibly the gunman’s accomplice, was critically wounded.
“To do this in broad, open daylight, right here where hundreds of people are coming by,” Bibb Country Sheriff David Davis said, “it shows just a callousness.”
The gunman fled the scene, and his vehicle, a white 2012 Nissan Sentra was recovered and is currently being processed for evidence.
Davis said Bryan was intentionally killed, while his partner in crime, who shot in the chest and neck, was possibly shot after being in the line of fire.
Davis said the other person who was shot arrived at the scene riding in the Sentra, with the shooter at the wheel. When the Sentra parked, the man stepped out and circled behind the Monte Carlo. Then the gunman, who had walked over to talk to Bryan, opened fire, killing him, Davis said.
The man who’d been riding with the gunman, standing near the back of the Monte Carlo, was in the line of fire and was possibly shot by his partner in crime, the sheriff said.
Bryan had appeared in six games this season with Mercer after battling a knee injury. He joined the program in 2010.
Mercer head coach Bob Hoffman said he grew close to Bryan during his time at the school.
“I loved him and cared about him from the very first time he was on our campus,” Hoffman said in a statement. “We grew to be very close over the years.”
