Family: College Athlete Has Died Day After Shooting
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WEST PALM BEACH (CBSMiami/AP) — Family of UAB running back Gregory Bryant have announced that he has died a day after he was found shot in a car on I-95 in West Palm Beach.
West Palm Beach Police spokeswoman Lori Colombino said Bryant was declared brain dead at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Hours later, CBS affiliate WPEC confirmed through Bryant's grandmother that he did not survive his injuries.
#BREAKING: UAB running back Greg Bryant has died, Grandmother confirms. He was shot Saturday while driving down I-95 pic.twitter.com/mAW1S7vBbn
— WPEC CBS12 News (@CBS12) May 8, 2016
The investigation into the shooting of 21-year-old recruit of the University of Alabama at Birmingham has now been classified as a homicide.
Detectives are seeking witnesses to the shooting, Colombino said. A passenger in the car, 25-year-old Maurice Grover, was hospitalized with minor injuries.
Bryant started his career at Notre Dame and spent last season attending ASA College, where he played in just one game.
He was the biggest name in UAB's first recruiting class since the school restarted its program.
He spent last season living out of a hotel room in Miami with friends while attending classes at ASA College. Bryant left Notre Dame after one season when he was ruled academically ineligible for the 2015 season.
Because UAB won't play again until the 2017 season, Bryant was allowed to enroll in January 2016 instead of possibly having to wait an extra year to get eligible elsewhere.
"Coach Clark, he really did me a favor, because I was living in hotels in Miami," Bryant told The Associated Press before national signing day in February. "He said I could come in as soon as the semester was over. Any other school I would have had to wait another semester and probably be enrolled by December. I just bought into what coach Clark was saying and I got in with a 2.0" GPA.
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