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‘A shining light’: Community gathers to honor doctor, wife, grandchildren killed in York County shooting Rock Hill vigil (Source: WBTV) By WBTV Web Staff | April 11, 2021 at 4:27 PM EDT - Updated April 11 at 11:46 PM ROCK HILL, S.C. (WBTV) - Family, church leaders, community members, friends shared their stories. They were speaking to a community, hundreds of people, who came to a Rock Hill park Sunday evening to honor a family who died in a mass shooting Wednesday afternoon. T...

Brain of mass shooter and former NFL player Phillip Adams to be tested for CTE Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / JoeSAPhotos) The family of former NFL player Phillip Adams has decided to have his brain tested for a degenerative disease that has affected a number of pro athletes and has been shown to cause violent mood swings and other cognitive disorders. Adams killed his doctor, three of his family members and an air conditioning technician before fatally shooting himself on April 7. Wh...

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Robert Shook, died Saturday at a Charlotte, North Carolina hospital after undergoing several surgeries. The 38-year-old was married with three children. According to authorities, Shook was shot six times but was still able to call his supervisor at GSM Services, who then made the first 911 call related to the shooting. "I just had one call me screaming that he had been shot," the 911 caller said. "The other technician has also been shot and is not responsive." According to York County Deputies,...

By Mark Starling Asheville Addressing Homeless Encampments (Asheville, NC) -- The city of Asheville is trying to buckle down on two homeless encampments. WLOS-TV reports residents in Aston Park and Martin Luther King, Junior Park were issued seven-day removal notices last week due to heightened safety issues. Homeward Bound told WLOS-TV its working to provide temporary housing head of planned construction along the French Broad River, which is affecting homeless encampments there. Governor...

FR171415 AP People participate in a memorial service and prayer vigil for the Lesslie family at Fountain Park, Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Rock Hill, S.C. Dr. Robert Lesslie and his wife, Barbara Lesslie, their grandchildren Adah Lesslie and Noah Lesslie, and two men working at the Lesslie home, Robert Shook and James Lewis, were fatally shot last week by former NFL player Phillip Adams. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford) ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Hundreds gathered Sunday at the vigil for the prominent Sout...

WFXB April 12, 2021 An update on last week’s mass shooting in Rock Hill.. According to York County Coroner Sabrina Gast, the sixth victim, Robert Shook died late Saturday afternoon. Shook, an air conditioning technician initially survived the attack that left a doctor, his wife, their two grandchildren and another air conditioning technician dead last Wednesday. Shook was taken to Atrium Medical Center in Charlotte where he underwent multiple surgeries. York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson said 3...

A GoFundMe page for the children of the two GSM employees killed in a mass shooting last week has raised more than $200,000 in less than four days.

ABC Columbia Apr 12, 2021 12:31 PM EDT CNN– Sunday night, the Town of Rock Hill paid tribute to Dr. Robert Lesslie and his family. Genevieve Curtis reports on how they’re being remembered.

South Carolina mass shooting: Former NFL pro killed 6, then himself WSOCTV.com News Staff Former NFL pro Phillip Adams killed five people, including a prominent doctor and two children, Wednesday in York County before he was found dead, investigators said. A sixth victim died days later, according to officials. York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson told a news conference that investigators had not yet determined a motive for Wednesday’s mass shooting. “There’s nothing right now...