Phillip Adams’ brain will be studied to find out if there are signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy after a shooting that killed six, in addition to the former player’s suicide.
Robert shook became the sixth fatal accident in the shooting involving the former soccer player. NFL Phillip Adams, before he took his own life, took place last Wednesday in Rock Hill, South Carolina, according to a report from WRAL.com.
Adams, a former defensive defender who played in State of South Carolina at the collegiate level, he was in the NFL, where he played a total of 78 games, including 11 as a starter. He spent time with the templates of the San Francisco 49ers – who chose him in the seventh round of the Design 2010 New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders, New York Jets Y Atlanta Falcons
Last Wednesday, Adams shot and killed the Dr. Robert Lesslie, his wife and his two grandchildren, as well as a technician who worked for the doctor. Shook, a second technician working in the home of the Dr. Lesslie, died on Saturday after spending several days in hospital fighting for his life.
The legislature of south carolina Ralph Norman, WBTV said Lesslie I was treating Adams, and that the attack happened because the doctor stopped prescribing drugs to the player. Norman he said to a good friend of the Dr. Lesslie
At a press conference last Thursday, the York County Sheriff, Kevin Tolson, he said could not confirm a medical-patient relationship between Dr. Lesslie Y Adams
Phillips’ brain will be studied to detect chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease that has been linked to repeated head injuries, including some that occur in football.
The York County Medical Examiner, Sabrina guest, said in a statement released Friday that he had received family permission to include the procedure as part of his autopsy, which was to be performed at the Medical University of South Carolina.
“I can tell he’s a good boy,” she said. Alonzo Adams, father of Phillip Adams, to WCNC last Thursday.I think football screwed up
A few years ago, the league agreed to pay $ 1 billion to retired players who claimed the NFL hidden evidence about the dangers of football. A recent study found signs of the condition in 110 of the 111 brains of former soccer players, whose brains were analyzed after they died.
“Our hearts go out to the victims of this devastating tragedy,” said the NFL in a statement about the event.
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