Jacksonville Jaquars offensive tackle Richard Collier was shot while waiting for some women outside an apartment early Tuesday and sustained life-threatening injuries, according to the Associated Press.
Collier, 26, and former Jaguars player Kenneth Pettway were waiting in a car when a gunman shot into the vehicle, said Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson. Collier was shot several times but it's not clear where he was hit, and the sheriff's office is still investigating.
Collier was in critical condition at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center, a hospital official said.
Earlier this year, the 6-foot-7, 350 pound lineman pleaded no contest to a drunken driving charge stemming from an incident last fall, avoiding trial and accepting six months of probation.
The third-year lineman was arrested on Nov. 3 after officers found him asleep behind the wheel of his sports utility vehicle at a McDonald's drive-thru window, according to a police report. Collier failed field sobriety tests and had a blood-alcohol level of .096. In Florida, it is illegal to drive when a person's blood-alcohol level reaches .08.
The football player's attorney, Hank Coxe disputed the police report and recommendeed that his client go to trial, but Collier didn't want the team to have to deal with the negative attention that it would generate.
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