Mercer basketball player shot dead in car outside Macon store

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    A shooting Tuesday in the parking lot of a downtown Macon convenience store left a Mercer University basketball player dead and another man -- possibly the gunman's cohort -- critically wounded.

    Jibri Bryan, a 23-year-old guard and graduate student from Savannah, was shot in the head with a pistol.

    He was found in the driver's seat of a late-model Chevy Monte Carlo that was backed into a space beside the Forsyth Street store, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said.

    The 4 p.m. slaying at the bustling corner of College Street, a well-traveled crossroads between the Mercer campus and downtown, was the city's first this year.

    Details of the shooting were not immediately clear, but authorities said the episode was recorded by security cameras at the Flash Foods where it happened.

    Davis said the other person who was shot arrived at the scene riding in a white Nissan Sentra driven by the shooter. 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.

    Investigators said the wounded man, whose name was not made public as of late Tuesday, was shot in his chest or neck. He was taken to a nearby hospital. The gunman drove off.

    "It shows a disregard for who may be around," Davis said. "This is a sad situation."

    He said investigators had "some good leads" on who the gunman might be. Authorities didn't say what might have prompted the shooting.

    - See more at: http://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article57979553.html
     

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