Alleged Shooter In The Murder At Alabama 'Not The Bad Guy,' Says Attorney

The attorney for alleged shooter Michael Lynn Davis in the murder at the University of Alabama early Sunday is promising another side to the shooting death of Jamea Janae Harris at the University Boulevard strip in Tuscaloosa.

Criminal defense attorney John C. Robbins of Birmingham is defending Michael Lynn Davis. He was charged with capital murder along with his friend, Alabama basketball player Darius Miles.

Tuscaloosa Police investigated various videos from bars and restaurants on University Boulevard and issued arrest warrants for Davis that indicate he was the shooter. Police investigations of the same videos indicate that Miles supplied the handgun that killed Jamea Harris. She is a 23-year-old mother of a young son from Birmingham.

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Davis and Miles, who are both from the Washington D.C. area, got into what authorities describe as a "minor argument" with Harris before gunfire broke out.

"My client and his parents are heartbroken at the the death of the young lady," Robbins said in a statement released to various media entities, including OutKick. "They send their deepest sympathies and sincere prayers to her family and friends. But my client is not the 'bad guy' here. Once all the evidence comes out, the public will see and understand who really is the "bad guy" in this tragic situation and who put the events in motion that resulted in the death of Ms. Harris."

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Neither Davis nor Miles have any known previous arrests. And their lawyers have each requested a chance to get out of jail on bail at a bond. That hearing set for Feb. 7 at the Tuscaloosa County Jail. Davis and Miles have been jailed without bond at Tuscaloosa County since Sunday. Preliminary hearings for both will also be on Feb. 7, Robbins told OutKick Friday morning.

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Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats immediately removed Miles from the team.

"We ask that everyone please withhold judgment until all the facts come out," Robbins continued in his statement. "And for the media to refrain from portraying Michael as the 'bad guy.' Michael is a good person from a good family, and he intends to vigorously defend himself against these charges."

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Guilbeau joined OutKick as an SEC columnist in September of 2021 after covering LSU and the Saints for 17 years at USA TODAY Louisiana. He has been a national columnist/feature writer since the summer of 2022, covering college football, basketball and baseball with some NFL, NBA, MLB, TV and Movies and general assignment, including hot dog taste tests. A New Orleans native and Mizzou graduate, he has consistently won Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) awards since covering Alabama and Auburn at the Mobile Press-Register (1993-98) and LSU and the Saints at the Baton Rouge Advocate (1998-2004). In 2021, Guilbeau won an FWAA 1st for a game feature, placed in APSE Beat Writing, Breaking News and Explanatory, and won Beat Writer of the Year from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA). He won an FWAA columnist 1st in 2017 and was FWAA's top overall winner in 2016 with 1st in game story, 2nd in columns, and features honorable mention. Guilbeau completed a book in 2022 about LSU's five-time national champion coach - "Everything Matters In Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story" - that is available at www.acadianhouse.com, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble outlets. He lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, the former Michelle Millhollon of Thibodaux who previously covered politics for the Baton Rouge Advocate and is a communications director.