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.
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]