The mother of a 23-year-old Birmingham woman shot to death, allegedly with a gun belonging to a former University of Alabama basketball player, says the young mother was killed because she did not want to talk to a group of guys.

Jamea Jonae Harris’s mother, DeCarla Heard, said her daughter had gone to Tuscaloosa with her boyfriend to visit her cousin, who attends the University of Alabama.

Court records released today state Harris died early Sunday morning after she was shot in a Jeep by Michael Lynn Davis, 20, of Maryland, using a gun provided to him by Darius Miles, 21.

The shooting happened after Harris and her boyfriend went to a club with other friends and then stopped on the way home to grab something to eat with her cousin, her mother said.

While they were sitting in their car waiting for their food, one of the suspects approached the car and was trying to talk to Harris.

“She (the cousin) said they were dancing around the car trying to get their attention,’’ Heard said. “They were like, ‘We got a boyfriend, we don’t want to talk.’’’

“They kept going on and on and eventually her boyfriend in the back seat rolled down the window,’’ Heard said. “He was like, ‘She already told you she got a boyfriend, you need to leave.’’’

One of the suspects repeatedly said, “You don’t know who I am, you don’t know what I do, I smack people.”

“I’m not for sure which one was saying what,’’ Heard said. “The guy kept saying, ‘I smack people, you don’t know who I am.’

Harris’s boyfriend told the other group of people with them that it was time to leave.

“He didn’t feel comfortable, something might happen,’’ she said. “He was like, ‘Let’s get out of here.’’’

They were still waiting for their food, so they didn’t leave immediately.

It was then, Heard said, that her daughter and the others got intentionally blocked in from leaving and one of the suspects approached the car with a gun.

“He walked up to the car and pulled a gun,’’ she said. Harris’s boyfriend had a gun as well.

Gunfire followed.

“He started shooting erratically, bullets going everywhere,’’ Heard said of the suspect.

“He said he was running away shooting backwards at the car. That’s when the bullets struck my daughter.”

Harris’s boyfriend was able to maneuver the car away from the scene and drove until he saw a police car, which was at the Walk of Champions.

Harris was pronounced dead on the scene.

Heard said her daughter’s death is absolutely senseless.

“I’m the mother that gets up in the morning and watches the news and I see stuff like this happen to other people’s kids and I send my prayers and condolences not thinking I’m going to be that mother the next morning,’’ Heard said. “It’s just unreal.”

Harris’s son, Kaine, does not yet know his mother is dead.

“It’s like I just don’t have the words,’’ Heard said. “At some point I need to just say it, but I don’t know if I have it in me to hold it together to tell him that.”

“We’ve just been surrounding him with love and keeping him entertained so he doesn’t realize what’s going on,’’ she said.

Harris was a graduate of Wenonah High School and worked overnights at Amazon. Heard works during the day so between the two of them, Kaine was always taken care of. They all lived together.

“We worked well together,’’ Heard said. “I was still raising her. She was still a baby – she was still learning about life and how to take care of a family.”

“She was an investment for me. I wanted her to flourish and be a responsible young lady and it was just taken from me,’’ Heard said. “It’s just horrible.”

A GoFundMe to help Kaine has raised more than $9.000.

“You don’t realize how much support you have until you need it,’’ Heard said. “It’s overwhelming.”

“You really truly know who your friends and family members are when they come to you in your time of need,’’ she said.

Heard said she wants her daughter’s legacy to be more about her life than her death.

“I just don’t want her to be a name in an article,’’ she said. “I want people to know she wasn’t a party girl, she just wanted to see her family. She worked hard and she wanted to have a good time with her family.”

“I want people to know she was a mother, a daughter, a granddaughter and so many people loved her,’’ she said. “I want people to know what was taken from us.”