{"id":133916,"date":"2024-05-23T09:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133916"},"modified":"2024-05-23T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:11:44","slug":"former-usf-football-player-critically-injured-in-shooting-brother-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133916","title":{"rendered":"Former USF Football Player Critically Injured In Shooting, Brother Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133909\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Battie-Brothers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Battie-Brothers.jpg 563w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Battie-Brothers-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>BRIAN AND TOMMIE BATTIE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Former University of South Florida football player <strong>Brian Battie<\/strong> was critically injured after a weekend shooting in Sarasota that killed his brother, <strong>Tommie Battie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Battie<\/strong>, 22, is reportedly on a ventilator after a setback prevented him from breathing on his own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Battie<\/strong> was one of four people wounded early Saturday after a shooting in the 3400 block of 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Street, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Battie\u2019s<\/strong> older brother Tommie, died in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Battie<\/strong> played at USF for three seasons before transferring to Auburn last season. He earned All-American honors as a kick-returner while at USF and ran for more than 1,000 in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIAN AND TOMMIE BATTIE \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Former University of South Florida football player Brian Battie was critically injured after a weekend shooting in Sarasota that killed his brother, Tommie Battie. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Battie, 22, is reportedly on a ventilator after a setback prevented him from breathing on his own. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Battie was one of four people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133918,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133916\/revisions\/133918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}