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Boston University neuropathologists said Phillip Adams had chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a degenerative brain disease found in many former football players.
Adams is a former NFL player from Rock Hill accused of killing six people in a mass shooting last April before ending his own life.
A coroner says an autopsy shows unusually severe brain disease in both frontal lobes of the former NFL player accused of fatally shooting six people in Rock Hill, South Carolina, before killing himself in April.
The 20 years Phillip Adams spent playing football “definitively ... gave rise” to a diagnosis of stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Boston University neuropathologists said Phillip Adams had chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a degenerative brain disease found in many former football players.