AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -Former Texas center Dexter Pittman has left the NBA draft combine after his half-brother was shot and killed in Houston.
Pittman’s agent, Mark Bartelstein, said the former Longhorns star left the combine in Chicago on Friday to be with his family in Houston.
Texas spokesman Scott McConnell said Pittman’s high school coach and godfather, Bennett Hatten, told school officials that Darius Johnson, 15, was shot in a confrontation in a Houston garage. He later died at a hospital.
Calls to the Harris County Sheriff’s office about the shooting were not immediately returned.
An investigator with the Harris County medical examiner’s office said an autopsy was under way.
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