“Brewer’s burns have worsened since he was admitted to the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Burn Center, where he is in critical condition, his family said today.

The burns on his hands and feet have gone from second-degree to third-degree, relative Danny Martinez said.

“He’s stable and awake, but his burns are getting worse,” Martinez said.

The burns cover more than two-thirds of Brewer’s body, range from second-degree to third-degree and will eventually develop infections, Dr. Nicholas Namias said this morning.

“He’s in very intensive care,” said Namias, who heads the Burn Center.

The teens set Brewer on fire because of a squabble involving a video game and a bicycle, investigators said.

Danielle Jarvis, 19, said she couldn’t believe her brothers were capable of such a crime. She blamed the “kids that they’re hanging out with” for her brothers’ problems.

“I know my brothers didn’t intentionally try to hurt anyone,” she said. “Now, they’re in a real spot. I’m scared for them.”

Meghan O’Connor, 13, an eighth-grader at Deerfield Beach Middle, described the suspects as “rowdy.” But she said she wouldn’t have expected them to be involved in burning someone.

Students said Brewer and the suspects used to be friends. They hung out at Ruby’s Pizza, at the corner of Southeast 10th Street and Southeast 6th Avenue.

Some of the teens charged in the blaze laughed when investigators confronted them about the attack, the Sheriff’s Office said.

During a chance encounter at an apartment complex on Monday afternoon, the boys accosted Brewer and condemned him as a snitch for calling the cops on their leader, whom the Sheriff’s Office identified as the local bully.

Brewer tried to leave. They doused him with rubbing alcohol and set him afire. Flames burned most of his body, especially his torso and arms, and seared off much of his hair, including his eyebrows, family members said.

Bent told his accomplices to “pour it on him,” investigators said, based on their interviews with the suspects.

Brewer tore off his shirt and jumped in an apartment complex pool.

Sheriff Al Lamberti called it “a case of retaliation.”"