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Former Syracuse University football player supplied pot to murdered drug dealer

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Syracuse, NY -- A former Syracuse University football player admitted today that he sold marijuana to a fellow student, who was later killed in a drug deal in September 2016.

Walk-on offensive lineman Taylor Hindy testified today in a murder trial in the death of Xiaopeng "Pippen" Yuan.

Two men, Cameron Isaac and Ninimbe Mitchell, are accused of murdering Yuan in a DeWitt drug robbery. Hindy is not implicated in the murder.

Hindy testified that he sold Yuan thousands of dollars of marijuana during the months before Yuan's was killed selling marijuana.