The incident - which authorities say involved throwing a man from a moving SUV - allegedly took place Thursday outside the Walmart Supercenter in Lake Park, authorities said.

PALM BEACH GARDENS - Four Palm Beach Gardens High School students - including one of Palm Beach County's top high school players - jumped a man outside the Walmart Supercenter in Lake Park last week and pointed a gun in his face before throwing him out of a moving SUV, authorities allege.

Timothy Brown of Riviera Beach, who turned 18 last month, is a defensive tackle who has committed to play at the University of Pittsburgh. He is charged with robbery, felony battery and kidnapping during a felony. He was booked late Friday at the Palm Beach County Jail and is now on house arrest.

Three other teens named in the arrest report were in court Saturday morning. The Palm Beach Post is not naming them because they had not been charged as adults as of Monday.

At least two of those three also play for Palm Beach Gardens High, and they and Brown took part in Thursday's 28-14 loss at Palm Beach Central High, hours after the attack is alleged to have occurred.

The fourth person also is believed either to be part of the program or was at some time

Karyn Hart, the athletic director at Palm Beach Gardens High, would not speak Monday to the status of the three. Football coach Tyrone Higgins II referred a reporter to Hart.

Brown, who transferred during the offseason from Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, was one of The Palm Beach Post's preseason "Super 11" look at the area’s best football players. Both of the other two football players taken into custody have received offers to play at Division 1 schools.

According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report, deputies found an 18-year-old man, with several scrapes and cuts on his arms and legs, in the parking lot of the Walmart, on Congress Avenue south of Northlake Boulevard, at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

The man, whom The Post is not naming, at first refused to press charges and was reluctant to cooperate; the report said the deputy suspected he feared retaliation. He later said he would cooperate.

He then had a violent seizure and fell unconscious and was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, the report said.

At the hospital, the man told investigators he was walking to the Walmart and saw the four men pull up in an SUV. The report said he recognized them from an incident at Dwyer earlier in the year, but it does not elaborate. It also does not say where the 18-year-old goes to school.

The teen said three of the four jumped out of the SUV and punched and kicked him. He said he was dragged into the vehicle, where he said Brown pointed a black handgun at his face and told him to let go of his cellphone, which he did. He said the SUV began to drive off and that his assailants threw him from the moving vehicle.

The man said he previously had been "jumped" by the men while leaving his ROTC program. The report offered no further details on that incident.

A witness later told deputies he saw the attack, which he described as "violent as hell," and said he was surprised by the level of viciousness, especially since it occurred in the middle of the day with people watching. A second witness, and surveillance-camera video from the parking lot, corroborated the events, the report said.

Police went Friday to Palm Beach Gardens High and took one of the three juveniles into custody. Brown and the other two attend school online, the report said.

The teen who was arrested admitted to being in the SUV on Thursday, and named the others, but denied taking part in the beating, the report said. It also said the man had told investigators that person was not one of the three who exited the SUV and attacked him.

The teen who was arrested also admitted to being in a February altercation, the one the alleged victim had mentioned.

A search of Brown’s home did not come up with the gun, the arrest report said.

In court Saturday at the Palm Beach County Jail, Circuit Judge G. Joseph Curley ordered Brown and two of the other three defendants to home detention but said they'd be allowed to attend school.

Brown's father said he was a youth football coach in Riviera Beach and would be able to help out his son, and the teen's mother said she is not working and can stay home with him.

The father, reached Monday, said he had no comment.

Staff writers Jodie Wagner and Hannah Winston and staff researcher Melanie Mena contributed to this story.

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