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College of Alabama basketball participant Darius Miles has been arrested and charged with homicide in reference to a capturing close to the campus Sunday which left a 23-year-old girl lifeless, Tuscaloosa regulation enforcement introduced.
“We had been made conscious of the current cost towards student-athlete Darius Miles, and he’s not a member of the Alabama males’s basketball workforce,” the College of Alabama athletics division mentioned in a press release Sunday.
Michael Lynn Davis, 20, has additionally been charged within the capturing, the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit mentioned in a launch. Each suspects are charged with capital homicide and are being held with out bond, it mentioned.
Investigators mentioned Miles is the one individual concerned who’s related to the College of Alabama.
CNN has been unable to find out if the suspects have attorneys.
Police responded to the capturing round 1:45 a.m. native time Sunday and located that Jamea Jonae Harris had been shot and killed whereas sitting in a automobile lower than half a mile from the college’s campus, based on a launch from the violent crimes unit.
The motive force of the automobile advised police that somebody had shot into his automobile and mentioned he returned hearth in self protection, presumably hanging one of many suspects, investigators mentioned.
“After processing the scenes, talking with a number of witnesses, and viewing video surveillance, two suspects had been developed,” the discharge mentioned.
One of many suspects had been hit by the returning gunfire and had a non-life-threatening wound, investigators mentioned,
“It seems that the one motive to this was a minor altercation that these people had with the sufferer as they had been out on The Strip,” mentioned unit captain Jack Kennedy. The Strip is a hub of eating places and companies close to the college campus.
The college mentioned it’s cooperating with the investigation, together with the athletics division.
Miles, 21, is a junior on the college and is from Washington, DC, based on an archived model of the boys’s basketball workforce roster. Earlier than he was faraway from the workforce, Miles was enjoying his third season as a ahead for the Alabama Crimson Tide, the archived roster reveals.
