re: New ESPN investigative report on the murder of Jamea Harris/Brandon Miller situation.

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He pulled the weapon first and then he pulls behind Brandon Miller and blocks him in then he shoots through Brandon’s car.

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I didn't see anything about him pulling the gun first except for Davis' attorney making that claim. Miles may have a bit of a defense, but the report shows Davis getting a gun out of Miller's car, walking up to the boyfriend's car with his hood up, pulling it down right before reaching the driver's side door and immediately opening fire. You can't walk up to someone's car door with a pistol, open fire, and then have a great claim for self-defense and/or allege the driver was the primary aggressor.

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Davis may have been a hothead but he was provoked to do use Miles’ weapon.

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Where do you see in that article he was provoked? I don't see anything in the article that even says Miles/Davis knew the boyfriend had a gun, just that Miles' mother said he owned a gun because he had a gun pulled on him when he was younger and that the boyfriend told Davis to "move along" and "Brother, why don't you be good."

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At 1:43 a.m., Miller's car pulled up behind Bradley's car, and Miles stepped out of Bradley's car.

Harris' Jeep made a left on Grace Street, away from the fight among the women in the alley and street. The Jeep turned around, lights still off, and pulled up behind Miller's car.

Miles then walked back to Miller's car and opened the right-side passenger door -- with Davis on the left -- and rummaged through clothes. According to court testimony, Davis and Miles had an exchange in which one told the other, "The heat is in the hat," and then, "Is there one in the head," meaning, was it loaded?

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At 1:43 a.m., Miller's car pulled up behind Bradley's car, and Miles stepped out of Bradley's car.

Harris' Jeep made a left on Grace Street, away from the fight among the women in the alley and street. The Jeep turned around, lights still off, and pulled up behind Miller's car.

Miles then walked back to Miller's car and opened the right-side passenger door -- with Davis on the left -- and rummaged through clothes. According to court testimony, Davis and Miles had an exchange in which one told the other, "The heat is in the hat," and then, "Is there one in the head," meaning, was it loaded?

Tuscaloosa police investigator Branden Culpepper testified at the Feb. 21 hearing that Davis fired first into the Jeep and that Cedric Johnson returned fire once Davis started shooting into the Jeep.

Video reviewed by ESPN appears to show Davis falling backward before two shots are fired from the Jeep. According to court testimony, Davis was shot in the shoulder.

At the first sound of shots, Bradley's car sped off.

"[I] see everyone scattering," a person at the scene said, who spoke to ESPN on the condition of anonymity. "And just kind of ran back across the street."

Video shows Davis running across Grace Street and into the alley behind the Houndstooth, firing his gun into the black Jeep. Bullets also hit the windshield of Miller's car, where there was an unnamed passenger. A photo shows bullet holes in the windshield of Miller's car -- one on the bottom of the driver's side and one in the middle of the passenger side.

As Davis ran, both Johnson and Miller drove away. It's unclear where Miller went. Johnson made a left on University Boulevard and stopped at the Walk of Champions in front of Bryant-Denny Stadium, where they encountered police. Harris was dead in the front passenger seat of her Jeep.

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At 1:45 a.m., Davis walked back onto Grace Street and to the driver's side of the black Jeep, which was still sitting behind Miller's car with the lights off. Almost immediately after Davis approached the driver's side of the car, the first shot was fired.

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Davis IMO has a very weak hail mary affirmative defense of self defense. Miles may be able to reduce his charges and plead ignorance, but him giving Davis his gun, knowing a shooting happened immediately thereafter, having his girlfriend drive him away seeing his friend was shot, and then lying to police saying he has no idea how his friend was shot is going to make his defense pretty damn hard to sell to a jury. Maybe he works out a deal with the state but, at minimum, he's an accessory after the fact.

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The hacks at AL.com could have investigated like this but instead just chose to throw Miller under the bus for clicks. Typical

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At the time the initial article came out, no they couldn't have. ESPN had to file an FOIA to get the videos, interview business owners in the area, and have the preliminary hearing occur before being able to write this article. Most of that information hasn't been available until the past week. The AL.com article, when it was published, only had the initial police reports to go off of. And then they had the prelim hearing transcript which didn't cover everything. The FOIA requests is what ESPN has recently obtained that has shed the most light on the situation. Those take time. No one could have possibly had those right after the incident happened.

I'd also point out that ESPN has far more resources and man power than AL.com does.

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Not many people believed that, and it's not even relevant. What is relevant is Miller saw the text.

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Yea what’s unclear is how Miller knew exactly where to go. Maybe it was disclosed before or after the gun text. We weren’t given any indication either way

I’ve said all along that I think he did see the text prior to the shooting because his attorneys would have stated otherwise if it were true. But that could have been right when it was sent or as he pulled up or anywhere in between

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It appears to me that Miles and Miller did the exact same thing

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And to think you lied about being an attorney with your original now permabanned account MetryMauler.

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You literally could not know if this were true or not.

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No doubt. Reading is key.

I didn't say they weren't close friends.

I said they didn't seem to be close friends.

Try to keep up, if you can.

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I didn't see anything about him pulling the gun first except for Davis' attorney making that claim.

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Then you missed it. At the end of the initial altercation something was handed from the back seat of Harris' Jeep to Bradley in the front. Bradley told police it was food. Miles told police he saw a gun. Miles could be lying, but if you assume he is telling the truth, it makes the claim that he got his gun to give Davis to use in self-defense a lot more believable. Of course, they should have just got out of there at that point, but they didn't.

Now the fact that they all chose to lie about what happened afterwards is pretty damning, for sure. Could it be they were just scared? Sure, but it's a bad look, nonetheless.

I can see the boyfriend coming up on charges before the dust settles on this one. And rightly so.

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Get a load of this geezer This geezer is so mad that his lies about Maluka Neigbor got exposed he’s lashing out in this thread

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Do you have to prove yourself to be a moronic jerk in every thread on the board?

Sure, sure.

All your posts in this thread have been sincere.

None of this matters.

He's gotten away with it.

It's over.