Auburn Tigers running back Brian Battie was critically wounded in a shooting that killed his brother early Saturday morning.
Brian and Tommie Battie were among five people shot during an incident in a parking lot at Tallywood Centre Plaza over the weekend in Sarasota, Florida, according to Sarasota County sheriff deputies who spoke to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune . The first responders to the shooting at the local shopping center saw a large crowd surrounding multiple shooting victims.
Authorities pronounced Tommie Battie, 24, dead on the scene; Brian Battie, 22, was sent to the hospital, where he currently remains in the intensive care unit.
In a post on X, formerly called Twitter, Brian Stultz, a staff writer for Auburn Sports, which reports on athletics at Alabamas Auburn University , said that Brian Battie has movement in his hands, but doctors are still assessing his brain function.