The Giants have advised draft pick Corey Ballentine to remain in Kansas and not attend the rookie mini-camp this weekend after a shooting that wounded Ballentine and took the life of his good friend Dwane Simmons.

Ballentine sustained a gunshot wound to his buttocks in the incident and has been released from the hospital in Topeka. He intended to arrive in New Jersey on Thursday night for the start of the rookie indoctrination.

The Giants feel it is better if Ballentine does not make the trip.

“We have been in communication with Corey since Sunday,” the team said in a statement. “We have encouraged Corey to stay in Kansas this week to be with his family and friends as they mourn the loss and celebrate the life of his good friend and teammate Dwane Simmons.

“Corey will be with us when it’s appropriate.”

Ballentine, 23, was with Simmons at an off-campus party early Sunday, not long after the Giants made the cornerback from Washburn University their sixth-round pick in the NFL draft.

“[The] Washburn women’s soccer team was having a party,” Simmons’ father, Navarro, told local KSHB-TV. “It was in walking distance” of the two young men’s home.

“They walked over, you know, had a good time. They were leaving. Some guys rolled up, asked them if they had some smoke for sale. Dwane and Corey said no, and [the men] just drove off and came back around and opened fire.”

The dad said Ballentine told him the pair had never seen the men before.

Ballentine is a 6-foot, 204-pound cornerback who played in 43 games at Washburn, a Division II school in Topeka. He was named the Cliff Harris Award winner for the small college defensive player of the year. Ballentine said it was “surreal” to receive the call from the Giants.

“This is something I have always dreamed of,” Ballentine said Saturday. “It took me back to the moment when I got recruited to college and I told my coaches this is something I wanted to do, I wanted to go to the NFL. We were all kind of giggling and here the moment is, I’m getting the call from the New York Giants. It’s just surreal because I didn’t know how I was going to do it, I know I wanted to do it, I just didn’t know how. Now that the moment is here, I’m trying to soak it in, really.”