A friend of C-Murder, aka C-Miller, aka Corey Miller, has confessed to the 2002 killing of sixteen year old Steve Thomas, the crime Miller was convicted of, and jailed for, back in 2003. Miller's original conviction was, as previously reported, overturned because of some withheld evidence, and the rapper was granted a retrial, which is set to begin next month.
Now the hip hopper's friend Juan Flowers has claimed that he was with Miller the night that Thomas died, and that it was he, not C-Murder, who fired the fatal shot. Flowers is already serving a life sentence in Georgia for a 2007 killing, which will no doubt inspire speculation that he is taking the fall on account of the fact that he is already inside. He does, however, insist that, despite having discharged the firearm, that he and his friend are in fact "not responsible" for it. Not sure how that's the case, if he did the shooting, but perhaps it will all become clear at some point.
The prosecution have responded, and say that the claim contradicts the testimony of another friend of Miller, Dwayne Cobbins, who says that he saw the rapper bringing a very small gun, hidden in his boot, into the club where the slaying took place. Cobbins says that when the altercation began, Miller and several others attacked the teenager, and while he admits that he didn't see the hip hopper do any shooting, his words were pretty weighted on the matter; he told the court that "no one could see C shoot that tiny little gun".
Incidentally, Miller has now been given a ten year sentence on a different conviction, with credit for time served, after pleading no contest in May this year to two counts of attempted second degree murder relating to a 2001 incident in Baton Rouge. As previously reported, the hip hopper was, on that occasion, caught on surveillance footage attempting to shoot a nightclub owner.