re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

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It seems like common sense would dictate you wonder why he wanted it at night out in public and whether it is a good idea to bring it (not to mention why did Brandon have it in the first place)? It's not a good look at all.

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I still don’t quite understand why the gun was in Miller’s car in the first place, the blocking of the cars seems to be a bit fishy as well but guess we’ll see what else comes to light.

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However, Culpepper recounted additional witnesses who were present at the scene or had knowledge of the parties and circumstances involved.

Most notably among these were Alabama basketball players Brandon Miller and Jaden Bradley, both of whom had been at Club 1225 on The Strip following the Tide's blowout win over LSU just hours before the shooting.

Details presented showed that three people, including Harris, her boyfriend, and another female UA student — who also took the stand as a witness Tuesday — were in Harris' black Jeep at the time of the shooting.

Surveillance video evidence presented during the preliminary hearing alleged to show Davis, Miles and Bradley walking along the Strip, before stopping to exchange words with the occupants of the Jeep.

The defense claimed Davis and Harris' boyfriend engaged in a brief verbal altercation, before saying Bradley told investigators that Miles had attempted to calm Davis down. It was during this time, too, that Mary Turner — the defense attorney for Miles — said that Miles had claimed to have seen a gun passed from the front seat to the back seat and proceeded to urge Davis to leave the location.

Davis had reportedly asked Harris for her number, which prompted the altercation with her boyfriend.

Culpepper, however, retorted that the three occupants of the Jeep had just picked up something to eat from Quick Grill on the Strip, and speculated that what Miles claimed he saw could actually have been food being passed from the front of the Jeep to the back seat.

Still, it was in the moments after this brief interaction that text messages presented during the hearing showed Miles asking Miller, who was his ride that evening, to bring him his handgun.

"I need my joint," he texted Miller, using slang terminology to refer to the gun, before using additional coded language that the defense suggested was proof that Miles and others felt threatened after the verbal altercation. Later it was learned that once Miller had arrived to where the shooting took place on Grace Street, Miles told Davis where the gun was located.

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