Ex-NFL Player Phillip Adams Suspected Of Killing 5 People And Himself

An update on the shooting in York County South Carolina yesterday. It has been confirmed that the gunman was 32 year old former NFL defensive back Phillip Adams. He played for teams including the San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders, New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons from 2010 to 2015. York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson said that on Wednesday afternoon, Adams shot two air conditioning technicians killing James Lewis of Gastonia before forcing his way into Dr. Robert Lesslie’s home in Rock Hill, where he killed Lesslie, his wife Barbara and two of their grand children ages 5 and 9.

The surviving technician had surgery and is in intensive care on a ventilator. Adams was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bedroom of a home about a half mile away that he shared with his parents. Tolson said it’s unclear why Adams took two guns to the property and said “there’s nothing about this right now that makes sense to any of us.” Lesslie served as Winthrop University’s Supervising Physician and Medical Director and founded a hospice service and a house-call doctors service.