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Photographs of Greg Bryant are displayed outside his parents' home in Delray Beach, Fla.(Photo: Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports)
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the office at Sugar Daddy’s Cabaret last weekend, with scantily-clad dancers walking in and out, Dexter Boston reviewed surveillance video in search of answers.
The question: Who and why did someone kill Greg Bryant?
A former five-star recruit who had played running back for Notre Dame, Bryant, 21, spent his final hour at this strip club May 7 before he was shot in the head.
The shooting has been ruled a homicide and Detective Lori Colombino of the West Palm Beach Police Department said no arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified. But Boston, a manager at Sugar Daddy’s, said he found something suspicious while combing through the surveillance video police recently obtained.
One clip shows Bryant dancing on stage with a local rap group; another shows him smoking a cigarette and sipping a drink; and additional footage shows him mostly keeping to himself in the club’s VIP section between his arrival at about 3:15 a.m. and his departure at about 4:30 a.m. Then, Boston cued up the video footage of what he described as a “suspicious” white Nissan Altima outside the club.
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A heavyset man circled the car, tapped on the driver’s window and later climbed into the driver’s seat as Bryant prepared to leave the club. Bryant, behind the driver’s wheel of his stepfather’s black four-door Chrysler, pulled off the lot and turned right onto South Military Trail at 4:30 a.m. About 30 seconds later, the white Altima headed the same way.
At about 4:45 a.m., police said, an unknown assailant fired several times into Bryant’s vehicle, killing Bryant and injuring a 25-year-old friend of Bryant’s who was in the passenger’s seat.
Watching video of Bryant, Boston wiped tears from his eyes as he recalled the running back’s exploits when Bryant was at nearby American Heritage High School. Referring to the unidentified driver of the “suspicious’’ white car, he said, “I don’t know if this is a person that has anything to do with (the homicide), but it’s a person you should question.’’
While the killer remained at large last week, Bryant’s former coaches and friends mourned Bryant’s death, recounted details from his life and final days and sought to protect his image.
More than 1,500 people attended Bryant’s funeral in nearby Delray Beach on Saturday and many remembered him as kind, generous and dedicated, even though, as one of Bryant’s former assistant coaches said, Bryant’s appearance suggested otherwise.
Jonathan King, who coached Bryant at American Heritage, said it would have been easy to draw conclusions based on the tattoos that covered Bryant’s arms, chest and back, his faux diamond earrings, the cut-off T-shirts he favored and the gold-teeth grill he liked to wear.
“It’s real easy to label him as a thug,’’ King told USA TODAY Sports.
Bryant worried his look might not fit in at Notre Dame, and when he arrived on campus in 2012, an assistant coach told him the gold teeth had to go.
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Photographs of Greg Bryant are displayed outside his parents' home in Delray Beach, Fla.(Photo: Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports)
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the office at Sugar Daddy’s Cabaret last weekend, with scantily-clad dancers walking in and out, Dexter Boston reviewed surveillance video in search of answers.
The question: Who and why did someone kill Greg Bryant?
A former five-star recruit who had played running back for Notre Dame, Bryant, 21, spent his final hour at this strip club May 7 before he was shot in the head.
The shooting has been ruled a homicide and Detective Lori Colombino of the West Palm Beach Police Department said no arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified. But Boston, a manager at Sugar Daddy’s, said he found something suspicious while combing through the surveillance video police recently obtained.
One clip shows Bryant dancing on stage with a local rap group; another shows him smoking a cigarette and sipping a drink; and additional footage shows him mostly keeping to himself in the club’s VIP section between his arrival at about 3:15 a.m. and his departure at about 4:30 a.m. Then, Boston cued up the video footage of what he described as a “suspicious” white Nissan Altima outside the club.
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A heavyset man circled the car, tapped on the driver’s window and later climbed into the driver’s seat as Bryant prepared to leave the club. Bryant, behind the driver’s wheel of his stepfather’s black four-door Chrysler, pulled off the lot and turned right onto South Military Trail at 4:30 a.m. About 30 seconds later, the white Altima headed the same way.
At about 4:45 a.m., police said, an unknown assailant fired several times into Bryant’s vehicle, killing Bryant and injuring a 25-year-old friend of Bryant’s who was in the passenger’s seat.
Watching video of Bryant, Boston wiped tears from his eyes as he recalled the running back’s exploits when Bryant was at nearby American Heritage High School. Referring to the unidentified driver of the “suspicious’’ white car, he said, “I don’t know if this is a person that has anything to do with (the homicide), but it’s a person you should question.’’
While the killer remained at large last week, Bryant’s former coaches and friends mourned Bryant’s death, recounted details from his life and final days and sought to protect his image.
More than 1,500 people attended Bryant’s funeral in nearby Delray Beach on Saturday and many remembered him as kind, generous and dedicated, even though, as one of Bryant’s former assistant coaches said, Bryant’s appearance suggested otherwise.
Jonathan King, who coached Bryant at American Heritage, said it would have been easy to draw conclusions based on the tattoos that covered Bryant’s arms, chest and back, his faux diamond earrings, the cut-off T-shirts he favored and the gold-teeth grill he liked to wear.
“It’s real easy to label him as a thug,’’ King told USA TODAY Sports.
Bryant worried his look might not fit in at Notre Dame, and when he arrived on campus in 2012, an assistant coach told him the gold teeth had to go.
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