Rock Hill | AP News A year later, detectives said they still dont know why former NFL football player Phillip Adams went to the Lesslie home and killed six peoplebefore taking how own life. "I can say he's a good kid, he was a good kid, and I think the football messed him up," Alonzo Adamstold WCNC-TV. Tobie Nell Perkins. They don't have the staff to do it, he said. ROCK HILL, S.C. As the community of Rock Hill, South Carolina continues to reel from the tragic April 7 shooting that claimed six lives, we're taking a look at the timeline of events that unfolded that day. She said authorities repeatedly asked Adams to come out, and promised to get his disabled mother out safely, before Adams shot himself. The York County Sheriff's Department began a Thursday press conference with the calls, which were made around 4:44pm local time as gunman Philip Adams reportedly attacked Dr Robert Lesslie . As a rookie in 2010, Adams suffered a severe ankle injury that required surgery, and in 2012, he had two concussions in a three-game period. Lewis shares his pain with the Lesslie and the Shook families. Police searching the Lesslies home, which is up a driveway from an arched stone gateand not visible from the road, found the doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren together in a room at the back of the house. Police said the suspect, Phillip Adams, was found dead at a nearby house. The ministers from West End Baptist Church, where the Lesslies attended, were used instead of Kirk during an event that drew about 1,500 people and included no Black clergy. Five people -- including two children -- were killed in a mass shooting at a Rock Hill home Wednesday afternoon. A prominent local doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren were among those killed Wednesday in a shooting at their home in Rock Hill, South Carolina. James Lewis, who was killed at the shooting at the Lesslie home in South Carolina, is shown in an undated family photo. He was struggling with his mental health., The rally against gun violence in Rock Hill will focus in part on the mental health aspect in recent shootings in the city, said Dr. Norma Gray, president of the NAACP chapter in Rock Hill. Local Here's what we know about the mass shooting in Rock Hill April 08, 2021 2:12 PM . Mr Adams says he believes his son's football career may be at the root of whatever caused him to snap and carry out the shooting. Rarely a starter, the gunman also was with New England, Seattle, Oakland and the New York Jets, finishing his career with the Atlanta Falcons in 2015. Two weapons were recovered: a 9mm handgun and a .45-caliber handgun. Rock Hill mass shooting. According to doctors, CTE has been found in professional athletes and symptoms include cognitive, behavioral and mood changes. Oakland Raiders cornerback Phillip Adams carries the ball on a 30-yard punt return against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Oakland, Calif., Sept. 15, 2013. A biography page said he and his wife raised four children and that Lesslie received his degree at the Medical University of South Carolina. She said Adams' 20-year football career undoubtedly contributed to CTE. I tried to get him to come to Texas. Adams father told a Charlotte television station he blamed football for his sons problems, which might have led him to commit Wednesdays violence. Who is Phillip Adams? Friends speak on former NFL player | Charlotte He and Casterline both said the gunman had opened a shop selling smoothies and juice before COVID-19 hit and emphasized he didn't drink or do drugs. He had to not be in his right mind, obviously," Casterline said. The Lesslie family also established a little library and a food pantry outside of the church named after 9-year-old Adah and 5-year-old Noah. Jeff Lesslie, who lost his parents and his two children, said this in a statement shared with WCNC Charlotte: "It has been a year since our community came face to face with the unbelievable. Gray said the Adams shootings and two others in Rock Hill this year clearly were incidents where individuals should have been red-flagged and were dealing with mental illness.. Case studies such as those compiled in this updated paper are important to further advancing the science and progress related to head trauma. Rock Hill shooting: Robert Shook dies | wcnc.com RELATED: Could a head injury in sports lead to CTE? When police searched Dr. Lesslies office, they found no evidence Phillip Adams was his patient. A York County sheriff's deputy is parked outside a residence where multiple people, including a prominent doctor, were fatally shot a day earlier, April 8, 2021, in Rock Hill, South Carolina. "The desire in them and their family was always to be a blessing. Casterline said he spoke regularly with Adams father, who left him a voicemail Wednesday morning. A man who had been working at the Lesslie home, James Lewis, 38, from Gaston, was found shot to death outside.

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