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Alabama basketball star Darius Miles wept as he was perp-walked to a police car after being charged with capital murder on Sunday.
Miles, 23, was caught on camera as he was led out of Tuscaloosa County Jail in handcuffs, calling out 'I swear I love you more than you can imagine' as he was loaded into a waiting cop car.
Tuscaloosa Police Captain Jack Kennedy said that the shooting occurred early Sunday morning in the Strip off University Blvd, near campus. He said Jamea Harris, 23, of the Birmingham area was shot and killed.
The capital murder charge arose because the death involved shots fired into a vehicle, Kennedy added.
'At this time, it appears that the only motive was a minor altercation that these individuals had with the victim as they were out on The Strip,' Kennedy said in a news conference Sunday evening. They didn't have a previous relationship, he said.
He said the driver of another vehicle, in which Harris was a passenger, approached campus police near Bryant-Denny Stadium at about 1:45 a.m. saying that someone had shot into the vehicle, and he fired back.
The driver said that his return fire was in self defense and that he may have struck a suspect, who was then treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital.