Jamea Jonae Harris: 23-Year-Old Shot Dead Near University Of Alabama Campus
Jamea Harris, 23, was fatally shot around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, January 15, 2023, while inside of a car a short distance from the University of Alabama.
Jamea Jonae Harris, 23, the woman killed in a shooting involving an Alabama basketball player, was “a beautiful young woman who loved her family and most of all her 5-year-old son Kaine,’’ DeCarla Cotton told AL.com. “She was just trying to enjoy her weekend with her cousin that attends the University of Alabama and her boyfriend.”
Cotton reportedly posted this Facebook: “Took my baby’s life because she wouldn’t talk to him.”
“She was a humble soul, and she was always a happy soul,’’ said her first cousin, Kennedi Henderson. “We literally grew up together.”
Harris was fatally shot around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, January 15, 2023, while inside of a car a short distance from the University of Alabama.
Student-athlete Darius Miles was arrested and charged in Harris’s death, which was captured on chilling security camera video. Michael Lynn Davis, 20, has also been charged in the shooting. Both suspects are charged with capital murder and are being held without bond, according to media reports.
“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,” the University of Alabama athletics department said in a statement.
Police responded to the shooting around 1:45 a.m. local time Sunday and found that Jamea Jonae Harris had been shot and killed while sitting in a car less than half a mile from the university’s campus, according to a release from the violent crimes unit.
“Oh my God!” a woman is heard screaming in surveillance video captured on footage from a homeowner’s Ring doorbell camera. The woman was running with another woman as bullets sprayed from the shooting early Saturday.
The video shows two cars careening down a street not far from The Strip, a popular road filled with restaurants and shops, as gunshots ring out. The driver of one of the cars told police that someone shot into his vehicle and he returned fire, according to CNN.
“After processing the scenes, speaking with multiple witnesses, and viewing video surveillance, two suspects were developed,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
“It appears that the only motive to this was a minor altercation that these individuals had with the victim after they encountered each other on The Strip,” said unit captain Jack Kennedy.
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