A University of Memphis football player was fatally shot in his car at Carpenter Complex about 10 Sunday night. Taylor Bradford, a junior defensive lineman from Nashville, was pronounced dead at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. After he was shot, he drove his light-colored Lincoln across central and hit a tree near Zach Curlin, police said.

Taylor Bradford was a redshirt junior from Nashville, TN. He played his first two years of football at Samford University in Birmingham, AL. In two seasons with the Bulldogs, He recorded 16 tackles and one tackle for loss. Bradford attended Antioch High School in Nashville.