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Mercer University basketball player shot dead in Georgia

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police searched for suspects on Wednesday in the shooting death of a Mercer University basketball player who was gunned down in a convenience store parking lot in Macon, Georgia.

Jibri Bryan, 23, was shot in the head about 4 p.m. on Tuesday near a busy intersection, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office told the Macon Telegraph newspaper. He was found sitting in the driver's seat of a late-model Chevrolet.

A second man who had arrived at the store with the shooter was wounded while standing behind Bryan's car, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis told the Telegraph.