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Report: Shooting Kills Two Former Auburn Football Players, Injures One Current Player

Not many details have emerged as of yet, but it appears that former Auburn football players Ed Christian and Ladarious Phillips were shot and killed last night, and current offensive lineman Eric Mack sustained a gunshot wound but will survive.

Here’s what we know:

“The incident occurred after several men had an argument, then a fight, at the University Heights apartment complex. One or two of the men returned and began shooting, apparently indiscriminately. The shooters have no association with the football program, according to a source.”

One witness spoke to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and had this to say:

“A witness, Turquorius Vines, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the shooting started over a girl. According to Vines, who is not an Auburn student, he was partying with several friends at the apartment complex when the shooting broke out. ‘It was about a female,’ Vines told the paper. ‘It started from a female. We were trying to get away from the trouble and it ended up right in our face.’

‘[The party] went from us chilling with all these females to a massacre for no reason at all. It happened so quick, in about a second.’”

All three players were a part of Auburn’s 2010 recruiting class. A bad back forced Christian from the game, and Auburn coach Gene Chizik informed the public that Phillips had decided “to give up the game” in the spring.

[al.com, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via CBS]

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