Who is NFL pro Phillip Adams and how did he die?
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Updated: Apr 8 2021, 12:05 ET
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NFL player Phillip Adams was named as the gunman involved in the mass shooting of five in South Carolina.
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Who is NFL pro Phillip Adams and how did he die?
Phillip Adams, 32, was a cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers.
He also played for the New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks, and New York Jets.
Adams got his start in the NFL after getting drafted in the seventh round of the 2010 NFL Draft.
The athlete attended South Carolina University and also played football while there.
Washington: At least five people are dead, including two children, in what police in York County, S.C. called a “case of a mass shooting.”
Four of the victims came from what authorities described as a “very prominent and very well-known” family in the community. They include Robert Lesslie, a 70-year-old doctor; his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69; and two grandchildren, Adah, 9, and Noah, 5. The fifth victim, James Lewis, 38, of Gastonia, N.C., was working at the home at the time of the shooting.
The York County Sheriff’s Office announced early Thursday that it had found and identified the suspected gunman, whose name has not been made public, at a nearby house in Rock Hill, about 25 miles from Charlotte, N.C., after an hours-long search.
Former NFL player Phillip Adams is suspected of killing 5 in South Carolina, official says. He took his own life. By: CNN
By Dianne Gallagher, Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris, CNN
(CNN) Investigators believe former NFL player Phillip Adams shot and killed five people including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren at a South Carolina home on Wednesday evening, a South Carolina state official confirmed to CNN Thursday.
Adams, 32, was later found dead in a nearby home outside the city of Rock Hill of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a standoff with police, the York County coroner s office said.
Former NFL player Phillip Adams is suspected of killing 5 in South Carolina, official says; he took his own life By: CNN
By Dianne Gallagher, Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris, CNN
(CNN) Investigators believe former NFL player Phillip Adams shot and killed five people including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren at a South Carolina home on Wednesday evening, a South Carolina state official confirmed to CNN Thursday.
Adams, 32, was later found dead in a nearby home outside the city of Rock Hill of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a standoff with police, the York County coroner s office said.