UAB running back Greg Bryant has died from gunshot wounds he suffered early Saturday, according to a report from West Palm Beach television station WPEC.
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He was found shot in the driver’s seat along with passenger Maurice Grover on Interstate 95 at around 4:45 a.m. Saturday.
“We were just at the wrong place at the wrong time”, Grover said.
ESPN has indicated that Bryant was declared brain dead Sunday. Detectives are seeking witnesses for the shooting, and the perpetrator is still at large.
Bryant, a Delray Beach, Florida, native, played one season for Notre Dame before he was ruled academically ineligible and transferred to ASA College, the Palm Beach Post reported. I surmise that in the end of it all, you know, God needed a running back, so it was Greg’s number that was called.
In 2015, the University of Alabama-Birmingham signed Bryant, who was among the biggest names recruited to the team after the school had reinstated the football program.
Bryant spent a semester at ASA Miami junior college, where he played in one game.
“This is such a sad and tragic situation”, Irish head coach Brian Kelly said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
“Greg worked extremely hard this spring on the field and in the classroom”, Clark said in his initial statement.
He was living out of a hotel before coming to UAB.
“As a family, we’re not interested in revenge because revenge won’t give us Greg back”, he said.
The family is still looking for answers and the West Palm Beach police department has classified it as a homicide investigation. “He just came home for the weekend to be with his grandmother and mother, and a coward killed my baby”. Any other school I would have had to wait another semester and probably be enrolled by December.
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A former fellow high school player, Josh Ward, shared fond memories of Greg Bryant before news of his death was announced.
