University of Alabama Basketball Player Charged With Murder In Shooting

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama basketball participant Darius Miles and one other man have been charged with capital homicide after a deadly taking pictures close to campus.

Tuscaloosa Police Capt. Jack Kennedy stated that the taking pictures occurred early Sunday morning within the Strip off College Blvd. close to campus. He stated Jamea Harris, 23, of the Birmingham space was shot and killed.

Miles, 21, a junior reserve ahead from Washington, D.C., and Michael Lynn Davis, 20, of Charles County, Maryland, have been each charged with capital homicide. The capital homicide cost arose as a result of the dying concerned pictures fired right into a automobile, Kennedy stated.

“Right now, it seems that the one motive was a minor altercation that these people had with the sufferer as they have been out on The Strip,” Kennedy stated in a information convention Sunday night. They didn’t have a earlier relationship, he stated.

He stated the driving force of one other automobile, during which Harris was a passenger, approached campus police close to Bryant-Denny Stadium at about 1:45 a.m. saying that somebody had shot into the automobile, and he fired again. One of many suspects was handled for non-life-threatening accidents at an area hospital, and Kennedy declined to reveal who fired the gun or who was damage.

FILE - Alabama ahead Darius Miles appears to move within the second half an NCAA faculty basketball recreation towards LSU in Baton Rouge, La., March 5, 2022. Miles is one among two suspects charged with capital homicide in a predawn lethal taking pictures on the Strip in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. (AP Picture/Gerald Herbert, File)

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An emotional Miles spoke to somebody as he was being ushered right into a regulation enforcement automobile: “I swear I like you greater than you'll be able to think about.”

Miles was a reserve on the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide workforce. Alabama had introduced earlier than Saturday’s recreation towards LSU that he was out for the season with an ankle damage. His bio has been faraway from the athletic division web site and the college stated that he “has been faraway from campus” and is now not on the workforce.

“The College of Alabama’s utmost precedence is the protection and well-being of the campus group,” a college assertion stated. “We're grieved by the incident that occurred close to campus final night time and prolong our deepest condolences to the sufferer’s household and associates.”

Neither the driving force of the opposite automobile nor Harris nor Davis gave the impression to be affiliated with the college, Kennedy stated.