Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder following Tuscaloosa shooting
Darius Miles left the Tuscaloosa County Jail on Sunday evening after he was charged with capital murder following an early morning fatal shooting on the Strip in Tuscaloosa. Miles is one of 2 suspects in the incident.
Capt. Jack Kennedy of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit alerted local media to the incident, according to the Tuscaloosa Thread. Kennedy said the VCU, Tuscaloosa Police and University of Alabama Police responded to the Strip on University Boulevard at 1:45 a.m. on Sunday on reports of a shooting.
Kennedy told the media that a 23-year-old female was the victim of the shooting and she has died.
Alabama released a statement about the issue:
“We were made aware of the recent charge against student-athlete Darius Miles, and he is no longer a member of the Alabama men’s basketball team.”
Miles on Saturday was ruled out for the season because of an ankle injury.
A day later, Miles was being led in handcuffs into the Tuscaloosa County Jail.
Miles, 21, appeared to be crying during a perp walk and said, “I love you,’’ and “I love you more than you imagine,’’ several times to someone standing outside the Tuscaloosa County Jail.
Video of Darius Miles leaving the Tuscaloosa County Jail after being charged with capital murder following an early morning fatal shooting on the Strip in Tuscaloosa pic.twitter.com/zbBdQ0VKhb
— Ben Flanagan (@ThisBenFlanagan) January 15, 2023
Crimson Tide basketball player Darius Miles one of two men charged with capital murder in fatal shooting on The Strip early Sunday morning pic.twitter.com/wBWybat3Ni
— Ryan Phillips (@JournoRyan) January 15, 2023
He was a good boy!
He was going to college and getting his life together…
Very sad story. Heartbreaking to see our kids throw their lives away…
Prayers for the family of the deceased. I don’t know what to say about Miles. Just another lost soul, I guess.
God rest her soul. I hope Miles gets the needle.
Glad you are not a judge or on a jury. We’re you there? If not and even if you were you probably do not know ANY facts, but you want someone executed. What if he turns out to be not guilty?
Which needle-the one they used to give or the C0vid v@x. Seems like they do the same thing to young men
Pretty big disconnect in logic that you post this, and then a CDC link below to “prove” another point.
No it isn’t. The CDC has claimed it was safe when it clearly wasn’t. They’ve changed the narrative on it from making you immune (it doesn’t), to preventing the spread (it doesn’t), to it somehow protects you better (v@xxed get it more often and worse now). The goalposts keep moving from the CDC’s original position to the positions of those who have questioned efficacy continuously.
This is in contrast to the data I presented, which is consistent with rates measured by other agencies and NGO’s and is consistent with what people personally see in their communities.
No logical lapse there.
You do realize that there are forums dedicated to political discussions? This isn’t one of them.
You do realize that we’re allowed to post what we want within the guidelines of the site and subject to their enforcement and not yours?
It’s unsurprising given your level of argument and lack of logic that you’d seek to silence opinions you disagree with. Silencing opposing viewpoints isn’t argument.
How about this AU Tville. My wife, early 30s, got the shots or she would get fired from her job at the hospital. Since then, she has developed 2 heart conditions, a stomach issue which requires weekly shots to attempt to try and fix, and diverticulitis. Oh, and last week she was diagnosed with POTS. Again, early 30s. She had exactly ZERO of these issues prior. 2 of them developed after the second shot.
Go ask Damar Hamlin what he thinks. Or that boy in the military academy that just unalived walking to class a few weeks ago.
I think you as an American have the right to get the shot or not. Completely up to you. As it should be. But you can not sit there and tell me something isn’t doing something when there is blatant proof that it is. Why would Pfizer not want any data released on the shot for over 50 years? Maybe the same reason the CIA didn’t want the Kennedy files declassified. People wouldn’t like what they saw in them.
I just don’t understand how these kids allow themselves to be put in situations like this.
Guns. That’s how.
If he threw a potato at her, she’d still be alive.
Never saw one do anything by themselves. Plus, surely if they were outlawed,no way you’d see or get one the streets. I mean, they’d be illegal and all.. LOL. Can’t go back and disinvent them. I’m sure a potato would be the only thing he could have used if they were outlawed.
He could have thrown countless things at her that would have resulted in the same way: A brick. A baseball bat. Anything solid for that matter.
Your an idiot(Well you are a Vols fan so there’s that) to believe that outlawing guns is gonna keep a gun out of a criminal’s hands? Outlawing guns keeps the guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens.
As a Vols fan, he’s in the vast minority to believe that.
You’re*
I know it’s petty but you can’t call somebody an idiot while making your own mistakes.
Also, I agree with you 100% on this matter. BigVols is definitely in the wrong here. I work in Memphis and live in the Memphis area so I am ALWAYS carrying for mine and my family’s protection.
Why are you here? Your inbred parents couldn’t afford a condom that’s how. If your aunt momma had swallowed your uncle daddy’s load, we wouldnt have to read your Mongaloid a s s comments, yet here we are, losing IQ points with every letter you type. Just shut the f u c k up.
To be fair, it’s not much better when you give them a car. We learned that from Ruggs.
Yep, the gun picked itself up, aimed it at her and pulled its own trigger…
Well. That’s no good. I’ll not stoop to making crude comments about the program’s “culture”. I don’t care how 2000’s Miami-esque your school culture is, m*rder is not a part of it.
Does Bama use capital punishment?
Yes, they do. Just not often enough.
That is rich coming from a person who is a fan of a school who has had as many people arrested as UT. So many that the school who has the most players arrested is given the Fulmer cup.
I don’t know why I’m surprised anymore. You try to compliment a rival program, and said program’s fans attack you for it. SDS has really gone downhill.
Prayers now for the families of two SEC schools today.
This is sad.
The sad fact is what has happened to society when the answer is to solve something with a gun. The loss of respect for human life is incredulous.
What society is that? Is it all members or society or is it some members? FBI stats show Caucasian gun homocide rates are in line with the low rates we see in Europe, despite having more guns here. The stats become much higher when African American and Hispanic rates are factored in.
If you are going to make a claim like that, I’d like to see a link.
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7042a6.htm
Here, link this…
Chicago after dark
DC after dark
Baltimore after dark
New Orleans after dark
Memphis after dark
Detroit after dark
Clearly ALL predominantly Caucasian strongholds…
Here ya go Uncle Rob…there’s more. The internet is full of them:
Rank City State Violent crime rate per 1,000
1 Anniston Alabama 34.34297427
2 Bessemer Alabama 29.85584219
3 Florida City Florida 22.75890299
4 McKeesport Pennsylvania 21.25423891
5 St. Louis Missouri 20.82285906
6 Detroit Michigan 20.56673306
7 Baltimore Maryland 20.27014907
8 Memphis Tennessee 20.0332432
9 Camden County New Jersey 19.67725003
10 Opa Locka Florida 19.49844012
ALL Caucasian stronghold don’t you know…
LegHumper,
Memphis is actually a 24/7 situation. You’re just as likely to get into a shootout on highway 240 at 10:30 in the morning as you are in some of the worst parts of town at midnight. I keep my gun on me all the time. It’s within arms reach of me now at my desk in my office.
He gets to sleep with dudes for the rest of his life. His name, image, and likeness are forever more a cautionary tale.
Whatever kept dude out of the arena on Dec 28th is no longer a personal matter. If Coach Oats doesn’t level with the press on what that was, then there is a problem.
I don’t think it’s this. If Coach Oats had known he could shoot this well he’d have played that night.
White supremacy did this
Just STFU oskie… quit being lame.
I don’t make the rules. Society has determined that his decisions are due to factors outside of his control and his environment and that there’s no level of personal agency, ethics, and integrity involved. Not my rules, these are the rules established by the universities who run these teams.
What are you even talking about, oskie? Who cares what color he is? What does that have to do with anything?
Dude made a terrible mistake and will pay for it the rest of his life.
This guy had it made and ruined his life over terrible decisions. I am not saying he pulled the trigger, but he apparently was hanging out with the wrong crowd. He basically just blew it in one night.
That’s not true. He can turn his life around. George Floyd had a long criminal record, used illegal substances, and held a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach and we have statues and murals of him. There’s still time to become venerated.
A bit much Oskie, don’t you think? While I am 100% with you about the hero aspect of George the thug Floyd, what happened to him was insanely and criminally wrong…
Dang Oskie on one