Alabama’s Miles faces murder charge

Alabama basketball player Darius Miles and another man were charged with capital murder after a fatal shooting near campus.

Tuscaloosa Police Capt. Jack Kennedy said that the shooting occurred early Sunday morning in the Strip off University Boulevard near campus. He said Jamea Harris, 23, of the Birmingham area was shot and killed.

Miles, 21, a junior reserve forward from Washington, D.C., and Michael Lynn Davis, 20, of Charles County, Md., both were charged with capital murder. The capital murder charge arose because the death involved shots fired into a vehicle, Kennedy said.

Miles was a reserve on the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide team. Alabama had announced before Saturday’s game against Louisiana State that he was out for the season with an ankle injury. His bio has been removed from the athletic department website and the university said that he “has been removed from campus” and is no longer on the team.

Georgia offensive lineman Devin Willock and Chandler LeCroy, a recruiting staff member, were killed early Sunday in a car wreck, the school said, just hours after the Bulldogs celebrated their second straight national championship with a parade and ceremony. Two other members of the football program were injured in the crash, which occurred in Athens. They were not immediately identified, but the school said both were stable.