Tyler Goodson, the popular “S-Town” podcast character shot by police in a west Alabama town over the weekend, is technically still alive, awaiting the harvesting of his organs.

Bibb County Coroner Patrick Turner on Wednesday said Goodson, 32, was declared brain dead at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Goodson remained on life support at Legacy of Hope, Alabama’s Organ and Tissue Donation Alliances at UAB.

Those close to Goodson began announcing his death and offering condolences on social media on Sunday, the same day that he was shot by law enforcement authorities in Woodstock.

On Monday, Woodstock Mayor Jeff Dodson and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency confirmed that Goodson had died.

“He was not killed Sunday, nor was he dead on Monday,’’ the coroner said. “I have no idea how the story got out, how it broke. I was like, ‘this is wrong.’”

Goodson was shot in Sunday’s early-morning hours after multiple law enforcement agencies responded to his home in the 500 block of Georgia Loop Road in Woodstock. Authorities have not released the nature of the initial 911 call but said he had barricaded himself in the residence and a stand-off ensued.

Officers spent three hours trying to talk him out of the house before he was shot.

During the course of the incident, Goodson brandished a gun at officers and Goodson was shot, said Trooper Sgt. Jeremy Burkett.

Goodson posted this on Facebook before the shooting: “Police bout to shoot me down in my own yard.’’

Turner said the injured Goodson was first taken to UAB Medical West in Bessemer, and then transferred to UAB Hospital in Birmingham, where he remained until he was moved to Legacy of Hope.

Once he is taken off life support, he will be pronounced “cardiac dead,” and the organ donation process will begin.

Turner said Legacy of Hope on Wednesday was waiting to receive a time for that surgery.

The shooting remains under investigation by ALEA’s State Bureau of Investigation.

Goodson and the small Bibb County town of Woodstock were featured in the hit podcast “S-Town,” from the makers of “Serial” and “This American Life.” The podcast was downloaded 40 million times worldwide within a month of its March release.

“S-Town” focused on a man who lived in Woodstock named John B. McLemore.

Podcast host Brian Reed begins the podcast to investigate a murder, but the story changes when McLemore dies instead. McLemore and Goodson were close friends and were described in the podcast as having a father-son relationship.

Goodson said in the podcast that McLemore promised him, in the event of his death, McLemore’s land and custody of his mother Mary Grace; however, McLemore did not leave a will and the estate went to his mother. Mary Grace was eventually placed in the care of McLemore’s cousin, and Goodson was warned by law enforcement not to go back onto the property without permission. However, Goodson said he went back to the property numerous times and took several items he claimed were his.

In 2017, Goodson pleaded guilty to charges of third-degree burglary, third-degree theft of property and third-degree criminal trespassing in connection with McLemore’s land.

Following his plea, Goodson received a suspended 10-year sentence with five years of probation.