At former Alabama Crimson Tide player Darius Miles’ capital murder hearing on Tuesday, police officers testified that star freshman Brandon Miller brought Miles the gun that defendant Michael Davis allegedly used to kill Jamea Harris. Head coach Nate Oats tried to downplay that shocking allegation when asked by reporters.
“We’ve known the situation since [it happened],” Oats said. “We’ve been fully cooperating with law enforcement the entire time. The whole situation is sad. The team closed practice with a prayer for the situation today, knowing that we had this trial today. We think of Jamea and her family, Kaine. Really think about her son, Kaine, that was left behind. So it’s sad.
“We knew about that. Can’t control everything anybody does outside of practice. Nobody knew that was going to happen. College kids are out, Brandon hasn’t been in any type of trouble nor is he in any type of trouble in this case. Wrong spot at the wrong time.”
Oats is talking about one of his star players giving his gun to another person as if he were talking about players getting caught going out to the party. Furthermore, the question of why Miller has a gun in the first place also goes unanswered as Oats tries to change the subject.
“Wrong spot at the wrong time” is what you say when you’re involved in a fender-bender, not when you bring a gun to an alleged murder site.
The whole quote shocked a lot of people around the college basketball world.
This is a head basketball coach talking about his best player bringing a GUN TO A SHOOTING WHERE THE GUN WAS USED TO KILL A PERSON pic.twitter.com/xAm7yxPHgp
— No Escalators (@NoEscalators) February 21, 2023
feel like this is gonna come back to bite him pic.twitter.com/CwKUp5bNU3
— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) February 21, 2023
Regardless of whether Brandon Miller legally did anything wrong, bringing a gun that resulted in the death of a human being isn't "wrong spot at the wrong time." I'm still flabbergasted Nate Oats actually used those words to describe the situation.
— John Talty (@JTalty) February 21, 2023
Wrong spot, wrong time is doing a lot of work here.
Miller brought a gun to the scene of an eventual murder. If he doesn’t bring the gun, it doesn’t become the “wrong spot.” https://t.co/xnYsW4ngCu— Mike Waters (@MikeWatersSYR) February 21, 2023
Tuscaloosa chief deputy D.A. Paula Whitley told AL.com that Miller wasn’t charged because “There’s nothing we could charge with him according to the law.”
[AL.com]
