Cops still hunting gunman in Mercer player's death

Law enforcement officials on Thursday were still trying to track down a second suspect in the Tuesday slaying of Mercer University basketball player Jibri Bryan.

A man apprehended soon after the slaying was being treated at a Macon hospital for bullet wounds.

Police said that man, Jarvis C. Miller, 24, of Macon, was in the line of gunfire that killed Bryan. Miller has been charged with felony murder as an accomplice.

Bryan, 23, a graduate student from Savannah, was sitting alone in a parked car outside a downtown Macon gas mart on Thursday afternoon when Miller and another man rode up in a 2012 Nissan Sentra, investigators said.

There was some kind of confrontation between the men in a side parking lot bordered by trees and bushes at the Flash Foods on the corner of Forsyth and College streets.

After the 4 p.m. shooting, Miller ran away, and the second suspect whose name police were withholding, drove off in the Nissan, authorities said.

The car was found ditched hours later on Orange Terrace, a few blocks from the shooting scene. Miller lives in an apartment there.

In November, Miller reported his debit card stolen. One of the fraudulent charges was for $62.55 at the Flash Foods where Bryan was slain.

Miller has no known serious criminal record in Macon. He was charged with driving with a suspended license three years ago.

The Nissan that the other suspect drove off in belongs to a woman who lives near Nisbet Drive in southwest Macon.

The woman's daughter, who didn't want her name printed, told The Telegraph on Thursday that her mother's boyfriend had borrowed the car "to take his cousins home. ... And he never did that apparently."

The daughter said her mother "doesn't condone" what happened.

"I would have never thought he may have done something like that ... being around my mom," she said.

She didn't know where the boyfriend was from.

"I hope they get him," she said.

To contact writer Joe Kovac Jr., call 744-4397.

This story was originally published February 4, 2016 at 5:37 PM with the headline "Cops still hunting gunman in Mercer player's death ."