Detective says football player was killed after verbal dispute

<p>A man who allegedly shot a college football player to death outside a nightclub last year told a friend later that he was angry because the victim was trash-talking him, an investigator said.</p><p>Athens-Clarke police Det. Rebecca Taft testified at a preliminary hearing Tuesday that 6-3, 280-pound University of the South offensive tackle James Phillip Cole said during a Nov. 23 argument with another group of men in the street, Yall Georgia boys aint got (expletive) down here.</p><p>A short time later, one of the men in group, 31-year-old Antonio Andre Wingfield, shot Cole, 18, in the chest, then admitted to a friend that he did it because I was tired of him (messing) with me, Taft testified.</p><p>The suspect and the victim apparently did not know each other.</p><p>Based on the police testimony, Magistrate Court Judge Charles Auslander ordered Wingfields case bound over to Clarke County Superior Court for trial.</p><p>Wingfield, who is charged with murder, denied shooting Cole when questioned by police. Police said a search of Wingfields home turned up a black hooded sweatshirt and a tan jacket with apparent gunpowder residue on the right pocket.</p><p>Police said Cole, of Hixson, Tenn., was partying in Athens, home to the University of Georgia, with two classmates from his school the night he was killed.</p>