Private investigators say Miles supplied gun in shooting
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.– Investigators said that a now-former University of Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder provided the weapon utilized in the fatal shooting however that another guy fired the weapon.Investigators wrote in
a court file that Darius Miles admitted to supplying the handgun instantly before the shooting. Another man is accused by authorities of firing the gun and killing a young woman near the university’s school, according to court documents filed in Tuscaloosa.Miles, 21, a junior reserve forward from Washington, D.C., and Michael Lynn Davis, 20, of Charles County, Maryland, are charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Jamea Harris. She was 23. The shooting took place early Sunday morning on the Strip, a student-oriented downtown of bars and restaurants near the Tuscaloosa campus, authorities said. Harris was sitting in the traveler seat of a car when she was struck by a bullet, detectives wrote in the court document.Editor’s Picks Tuscaloosa police Capt. Jack Kennedy decreased to state Tuesday where Miles got the gun. Since Jan. 1, Alabama stopped needing a license to carry a hidden handgun.Miles and
Davis remained in the Tuscaloosa County prison, and Kennedy said a probable cause hearing might take 30 to 60 days in a capital murder case.The University of Alabama said in a declaration that Miles is no longer on the basketball group. The fourth-ranked Crimson Tide are arranged to play Vanderbilt University on Tuesday night in Nashville.Defense lawyers for Miles
released a statement on Monday saying Miles maintains his innocence which he and his household” are sad” over Harris’death.”While Darius has been accused of being included with this tragedy, he keeps his innocence and eagerly anticipates his day in court,” they said. “Our firm’s own investigation is ongoing, and no additional statement will be made at this time,”attorneys William White, Clayton Tartt and Suzanne Norman from the Birmingham-based Boles Holmes White law practice composed in the statement.Basketball coach Nate Oats stated Monday the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide are going through “sort of a grieving process “”They didn’t have a lot of questions, “Oats stated.”It’s actually simply more of kind of a mourning procedure. I suggest, they understand the severity of
the scenario with Jamea. They likewise comprehend the intensity of the scenario with Darius. There’s both sides of it, dealing with it.
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