At the start of the year, Brandon Miller, then a star at the University of Alabama, found himself in turmoil. Indeed, on January 15, a shooting broke out near the university campus and a 23-year-old woman, Jamea Harris, shot in the head, died following the shots fired.
The alleged perpetrator of the fatal shooting, Michael Lynn Davis, is a friend of Alabama basketball player Darius Miles, who asked his teammate Brandon Miller to bring the weapon to him at the scene.
Brandon Miller was interviewed by the police and the courts but no charges were brought against him. He had certainly brought the weapon to Darius Miles, at the latter’s request, but was unaware of his teammate’s intentions.
Nevertheless, ESPN teaches us that the victim’s family has filed a lawsuit against the three men and is seeking a jury trial to obtain damages. Jamea Harris’ mother says Miller, Davis and Miles “knew or should have known that bringing a dangerous weapon into an altercation and using it was likely to cause damage.”
Therefore, the family would like “hear the testimony of the three young men involved on what they did, said and saw”, specifies their lawyer, and would also like “investigate why and how the weapon arrived at the scene” in order to perhaps “make decisions about the degree of culpability of each person”.
Legal problems that the Hornets would have done well without, they who already have to manage the Miles Bridges case…
