An Alabama men’s basketball player sued the New York Times for defamation on Wednesday, saying the newspaper falsely placed him at the scene of a high-profile deadly shooting earlier this year in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The player, Kai Spears, a walk-on freshman, said in the complaint and in a subsequent interview that he was back at his dorm with friends on Jan. 15 when 23-year-old Jamea Harris was fatally shot. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Alabama, includes a sworn affidavit from one of two friends who said he was with Spears that night.
In response to the lawsuit, Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said: “We plan to defend against the suit vigorously.” The paper has previously said it stands by its reporting, and the lawsuit says the Times didn’t act on Spears’ request for a retraction. The lawsuit accuses the Times of defamation, libel and false-light invasion of privacy and says the Times has been repeatedly told it published false information and has refused to correct the record. A school official told The Washington Post this month that the university told the Times reporter, Billy Witz, that his reporting was “factually inaccurate” and reiterated that only two current players, Miller and Bradley, were at the scene.
The three remained in the dorm room the rest of the night, the complaint states, and the following day, Spears went to the police, “as the Tuscaloosa police wanted to interview all the basketball players who were out that night.”
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