Alabama basketball player Darius Miles has been charged with capital murder following a shooting near campus.

Alabama basketball player Darius Miles and another man have been charged with capital murder following a fatal shooting near campus.

Tuscaloosa police captain Jack Kennedy said the shooting happened early Sunday morning on the Strip off University Boulevard. near campus. He said Jamea Harris, 23, from Birmingham, was shot dead.

Miles, 21, a junior backup from Washington, D.C., and Michael Lynn Davis, 20, from Charles County, Maryland, were charged with capital murder. The capital murder charge arose because the cause of death was car shots, Kennedy said.

“At this point, it seems like the only motive was a minor altercation between these people and the victim while they were on the Strip,” Kennedy said at a news conference Sunday night. According to him, they had no previous relationship.

He said the driver of the other vehicle, in which Harris was a passenger, approached campus police near Bryant-Denny Stadium at approximately 1:45 a.m., claiming that someone fired at the vehicle and he returned fire. One of the suspects was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital, and Kennedy declined to say who fired the gun or who was injured.

An emotional Miles turned to someone as he was being put into a law enforcement car, “I swear I love you more than you can imagine.”

Miles was a reserve on the fourth-place Crimson Tide team. Alabama announced before Saturday’s game against LSU that he was out for the season with an ankle injury. His biography was removed from the athletic department’s website, and the university said he was “pulled off campus” and no longer on the team.

“The top priority for the University of Alabama is the safety and well-being of the campus community,” the university said in a statement. “We are saddened by the incident last night near campus and express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the victim.”

According to Kennedy, neither the driver of the other car nor Harris nor Davis were associated with the university.

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