South Carolina mass shooting: Former NFL pro killed 5, 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.
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 that makes sense to any of us,” Tolson said.
The York County coroner’s office said Dr. Robert Lesslie, 70, and his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69, were pronounced dead at the scene along with grandchildren Adah Lesslie, 9, and Noah Lesslie, 5.
Who was Phillip Adams? Shocked friends of ex-NFL player speak after SC mass shooting
Former NFL pro accused of killing five people By ALAINA GETZENBERG and TOBIE NELL PERKINS | April 9, 2021 at 9:05 AM EDT - Updated April 9 at 9:22 AM
YORK COUNTY, S.C. (Charlotte Observer/Rock Hill Herald) - Former NFL player Phillip Adams, who had a number of injuries during his journeyman’s career in the league, is at the center of a mass shooting case in South Carolina.
Authorities identified Adams as the suspect in the shooting of six people in York County, S.C., Wednesday afternoon. Five people were killed, a sixth is in critical condition, and Adams later killed himself, authorities said.
South Carolina mass shooting: Former NFL pro killed 5, then himself, officials say WSOCTV.com News Staff
The gunman who killed five people, including a prominent doctor in York County, was former NFL pro Phillip Adams, who died by suicide early Thursday, officials told Channel 9.
An AP source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, said Adams’ parents live near the doctor’s home in Rock Hill.
The source said Adams killed himself after midnight with a .45 caliber weapon.
Update: Suspect in the York County mass shooting is reportedly Phillip Adams. A source told the @AP Adams shot 6 people, killed 5 & then himself. We’re awaiting an official update from the sheriff’s office about a possible motive & additional information in this case. @wsoctvpic.twitter.com/c4tPcGcomB Anthony Kustura (@AnthonyWSOC9) April 8, 2021
Growth Pummels North and South Carolina
by Leon Kolankiewicz
I have had the good fortune to experience the charms of both the Tar Heel State and the Palmetto State. For those Westerners who may never have ventured east of the Mississippi River, I m referring to North Carolina and South Carolina.
In the former, I have backpacked the Appalachian Trail from Newfound Gap in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. I have stood atop Mt. Mitchell the very rooftop of the Smokies and at 6,684 ft., the highest point in all of eastern North America, Canada included. My son worked as an avionics engineer with the U.S. Navy at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, NC, working on the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, and I have often visited him at his place in New Bern on the banks of the tidal lower Neuse River where its mouth opens wide into Pamlico Sound.