A student manager for the University of Alabama men’s basketball team said Friday he, not freshman walk-on Kai Spears, was in star Brandon Miller’s car during the fatal shooting of Jamea Harris in January.

Cooper Lee told the New York Times in a story published Friday that he got into Miller’s car at 1:40 a.m. Jan. 15, just minutes before Harris was shot and killed on the Strip in Tuscaloosa.

Lee’s version of events is also included in Spears’ defamation, libel and invasion of privacy under false light lawsuit against the Times, the paper reported.

A spokeswoman for The New York Times on Friday said the article would be corrected.

”We believe our original story was not accurate and plan to append an editor’s note to the story,” the Times’ spokeswoman said.

Court records stated Harris, a 23-year-old Birmingham mother, was in a Jeep when she was allegedly shot by Michael Lynn Davis, 20, of Maryland, using a gun provided to him by former Tide basketball player Darius Miles, 21, who is facing capital murder charges in connection with the incident.

Miles pleaded not guilty. He is being held without bond; several of his former teammates attended his bond hearing late last month.

A month after Harris’ death, Tuscaloosa police investigators testified Miller and Jaden Bradley were present at the scene.

Spears’ alleged involvement was reported nearly a month after the testimony.

Published on March 15, the Times cited “a person familiar with the case who spoke on the condition of anonymity” when it named Spears and included statements from UA and Spears either denying the claim or declining to comment.

Spears —according to sworn affidavits by two friends visiting Spears that weekend — had dinner with Miller but left and returned to his dorm in Bryant Hall before Miller left to pick up Miles.

Spears awoke the following day to missed calls from the Tuscaloosa Police Department.

“Everything kind of blew up,” Spears told the Washington Post.

“I had multiple threats from like Twitter and Instagram, people telling me to kill myself, people telling me I’m a murderer, we’re a team full of murderers. And they’re just kind of putting this false narrative out … I mean, I did nothing wrong.”

The suit, filed Tuesday morning in Alabama’s Northern district court and reviewed by AL.com, states Spears is seeking upwards of $75,000 in damages due to emotional and physical distress.

He had requested a retraction of the story March 20, which the Times denied, according to the suit.

In a Feb. 21 court hearing, law enforcement testified that Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun to the scene of the shooting.

Miller’s attorney has said Miller had no knowledge of Miles’ intent when he made that request. Miller is a cooperating witness and is not considered a suspect in the investigation.