CRIME SC: Doctor, wife, 2 grand kids & worker murdered in home. GTR

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Five killed, including two children, in shooting at York County home
Deputies: Report of shooting involving multiple people in York County

Updated April 8 at 12:56 AM

YORK COUNTY, S.C. (WBTV) - Five people -- including two children -- were killed in a mass shooting at a Rock Hill home Wednesday afternoon.

The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. on Marshall Road.

Officers said a doctor, his wife and two grandchildren were found dead inside the home with gunshot wounds. Another man was found dead outside of the home.

Dr. Robert Lesslie, 70, and his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69, were pronounced dead, as were 9-year-old Adah Lesslie and 5-year-old Noah Lesslie.

A fifth victim, identified as 38-year-old James Lewis, from Gaston, was working at the home when he was fatally shot, according to the York County coroner’s office.

The shooting led to an hours-long search for what officers called an “armed and dangerous” suspect.

Law enforcement helicopters and drones were used to look for the suspect.


York County Sheriff’s deputies say they are looking for a young black male wearing a black hoodie and camo pants last seen in the area of Marshall Road, Rock Hill.

Officials are asking citizens in the area to stay inside their homes and lock their doors during the search for the suspect.

If anyone sees or hears anything suspicious, deputies are asking you to call 911 right away.

NEW: Residents in the area of 4400 Marshal Rd. YCSO is looking for a young black male wearing a black hoodie and camo pants last seen in the area of 4400 Marshall Rd, Rock Hill. Suspect is possibly armed & dangerous. Any contact or information call 9-1-1 immediately. #YCSONews
— YCSO_SC (@YCSO_SC) April 7, 2021
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Deputies are instructing the media to please keep helicopters away from the area.

Officials say the suspect is possibly armed and dangerous. Anyone who has contact or information should call 911 immediately.

www.wbtv.com

Source: NFL pro killed five people, then himself in York County, S.C. shooting

The gunman who killed five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife, their two grandchildren and a worker, was a former NFL pro Phillip Adams, the Associated Press reports. Adams killed himself early Thursday, according to a source who was briefed on the investigation.
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mzkitty

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Apparently they got him. Sorry for the lousy spacing.


5 dead, 1 hurt in York County mass shooting, including Rock Hill doctor, wife, grandkids, worker

Updated 29 minutes ago

York County, SC

Five people were killed Wednesday and a sixth wounded in York County in a mass shooting by a suspect caught in a manhunt that ended early Thursday, officials said.


The victims included a prominent Rock Hill doctor and his wife, two of their grandchildren, and a worker who was at the doctor’s Marshall Road home outside Rock Hill where the shootings took place, police and coroner officials said.


York County Sheriff’s Office deputies said an eight-hour manhunt ended around 1 a.m. at a home near where the shooting happened.


York County Coroner Sabrina Gast identified the victims found dead in the house as: Dr. Robert Lesslie, 70; his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69; Adah Lesslie, 9; and Noah Lesslie, 5.


James Lewis, 39, of Gastonia, N.C., was found dead outside the home, Gast said. Lewis was working at the house when he was killed, Gast said.



A sixth person was shot, sheriff’s office spokesman Trent Faris said. That person, whose name has not been released, was airlifted to a Charlotte hospital. That person’s condition was unavailable.

The victims

Robert Lesslie had practiced medicine in York County for decades, with a specialty in emergency room medicine. He was medical director of the Emergency Room at Piedmont Medical Center for 15 years and worked at several other Charlotte-area hospitals, according to his biography from his medical practice.


He was medical director of Riverview House Calls & Riverview Hospice & Palliative Care.


He and his wife Barbara had been married more than 40 years.


Lesslie was a legend in health care in Rock Hill, and authored books on Eemergency Room work and workers.


When he published the book “Angels in the ER” in 2008, Robert Lesslie told The Herald an emergency room doctor learns about people and from people during every shift.


“I’ve been an observer of human condition as well as a physician. There’s no better place to be an observer than the ER. You find out what people are about. Everybody has something to teach us. I wanted to do this from a spiritual perspective. Once that became clear to me, it wrote itself.”


Friends of Doctor Lesslie and his wife described the couple as caring, loving members of the community who had served the public through the medical practice and in other ways for decades.


“Our hearts are just completely broken,” one longtime friend of the Lesslie family said.



Tributes poured in on Facebook and other social media after the victims’ identities were released around midnight.

The shooting

An eight-hour manhunt for the suspect went on until around 1 a.m. Thursday, said Faris the York County Sheriff’s Office spokesman. The mass shooting occurred before 5 p.m.


Faris said in a media briefing after 1 a.m. the incident was over. Deputies located the suspect nearby in a home where the investigation continued, Faris said.


He declined to comment on how the suspect was located.



Faris declined to name the suspect or give information about the suspect’s condition.


A search warrant was served on the house where the suspect was found, Faris said.


It remains unclear what relationship, if any, there was between the Lesslie family and the suspect, Faris said.


“We are all shocked this could happen here in York County,” Faris said. “This is a mass shooting. Normally you think of a movie theater or a mall but we are treating this as a mass shooting because there were five victims killed.”


He confirmed that all of the victims were injured by gunshot wound and no other weapons were used.



Faris said the incident is particularly heartbreaking because of Doctor Lesslie’s prominence in the community. “He was my doctor, if that says enough,” he said.


Police had been searching for the male suspect wearing a black hoodie and camouflage pants since shortly after the victims were found, Faris said. Deputies said during the manhunt the “suspect is possibly armed & dangerous.”


People in the area were advised to stay inside their homes, the sheriff’s office said.


A neighbor told The Herald that deputies came to the house around 6 p.m. and advised them to stay inside, but neighbors were then allowed to leave around 8 p.m.


A State Law Enforcement Division helicopter continued to fly through the area in the dark until around midnight, shining a spotlight in the search.



Several dozen deputies remained on scene through the manhunt. The Rock Hill Police Department also assisted county deputies on scene and in other areas, Lt. Michael Chavis of the police department said.


“We are helping the county make sure law enforcement service is not interrupted,” Chavis said.


Other police agencies, including SLED agents and others from local, state and federal law enforcement departments, were on scene. K-9 units and patrol deputies also assisted detectives in the search.


Sheriff Kevin Tolson cautioned against people spreading information on social media, which had not come from official sources, about possible victims.


“Out of respect for families involved, please don’t share rumors,” the statement said. “Share facts from reliable sources.”


Faris said that the family is asking for privacy.


 
ginnie6

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Well crud! This is WAY too close to me. He started Riverview Urgent care and we have seen him there several times. When my youngest was in his phase of needing bubble wrap they knew us by name when we walked in.....My guess is they had a beef with him over care or knew he was a doc and wanted drugs.

Here's another link as the Herald is pay to see
www.wbtv.com

Source: NFL pro killed five people, then himself in York County, S.C. shooting

The gunman who killed five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife, their two grandchildren and a worker, was a former NFL pro Phillip Adams, the Associated Press reports. Adams killed himself early Thursday, according to a source who was briefed on the investigation.
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probably has nothing to do with anything but money, crooked money, drugs, or just stupid bad luck. But after reading denninger's post about the VAERS reporting of wrongful injury/death compensation and knowing that big pharma making cv vaxes is full legal immunity to any harm their product might cause, karl's phrase "There is no immunity against The Law of Scoreboards" comes to mind. Vengeance can be vicious, and perhaps rightly so.
 
PghPanther

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All this seems so shocking to Whites...........it shouldn't.

The problem is you are thinking from a White Western culture prospective.................

Here are the social/behavioral traits of native African societies of which American Black ancestral traits have had for 50,000 years plus and unchanged to this day where tribes exists as hunter gatherers in the Sub Sharan .......

1) Courtship and romance do not exist. There is not even a word in to define romance in most Sub-Saharan Africa cultures.

2) Single dwelling families do not exist in the manner of being faithful to one another......children are not raised by a committed single home family but by the tribal village. (remember commie Hillary's child rearing book "It takes a village?" to push the state on a child's upbringing instead of the family?......that title was based on African tribal behavior). As a result of this behavior, women in Africa have many children in their lifetime from a variety of males. (Can you see why are welfare program plays right into enhancing that today?)

3) Outside of your local tribe you trust or care for nobody else. Outside of your tribe a death is meaningless to you and empathy does not exist.

4) Within your tribe you take or share anything from anyone else....private property is an unknown concept in tribal behavior. Nor is respect of property known in African culture. Socialism is a natural for Africans to latch on to as a result. (Should it surprise you they vote democratic as a result?)

5) Outside of your tribe you can plunder and take anything including humans as property (slaves) or even in some cases today still kill and eat them. Of course using them as slaves is still going on today in some parts of Africa and is an accepted practice that was the source of all other races taking them as slaves in the past. (but that is in the past for all other races today except Africa)

6) Life is cheap in Africa....death is common place from disease, starvation and animal predators....as a result death is looked at with very little empathy relative to Western culture.

7) Predatory nature is a struggle in Africa......you must look, react and retaliate instantly for the moment or end up dead from snake bites, alligators and other predators.............case in point. Snake bits kill 5 to 10% of Africans in tribes......in the US 1 out of 10 million people die from a snake bite.

8) Hunter gatherers do not store food.............there is no survival skill in the abstract, forethought and long term strategic planning.......you survive one day at a time.

9) Cleanliness is unknown.........feces are everywhere and the wind blows their bacteria throughout the air causing much sickness and disease.

10) Non scientific superstitious beliefs rule the day in tribal behavior...........spirits, witch doctors and behavior strange and obscene to Western culture is the norm. (i.e. cow urine showers to lighten hair/sand put in women's vaginas to heighten sexual pleasure during intercourse for males)

11) There is no object law or justice in tribal behavior that supersedes the tribe of which it is carried out in..........justice is personal and done swiftly without recourse. It is unorganized and anthropologically identical to how male baboon species act in its retaliation.

I know of each of these traits listed above from my anthropological studies in college (before PC came about) and of this personally from a roommate I had in college...........he was White, from a missionary family.......born in Chad African and lived there for the first 16 years of his life........

.....and I also learned it from a native Nigerian teammate on my soccer team in college who even had tribal marks are his forehead.

Now take these behaviors of which Africans have been naturally selected in social evolution for those survival traits over 50,000 years and put them into a Modern Western society.

Connect the dots.............and you will see why the US is full of St. George /St. Mike / St. Trevon and Rodney King type behavior.......
 
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Assigning 'western human traits' to animals, birds, and other creatures has been a great past time for the white population, especially here in the US. We've seen those assignments since the earliest motion picture cartoons. Steamboat Willie, et al. Several people a year are injured in places like Yellowstone by animals they have unrealistically assigned human traits to. We've done the same for the black population since the 60's. I'm not suggesting that the black population is not human, but as pointed out earlier in this thread, they have only mimicked western human traits but it is only a facade that is broken when faced with danger or conflict... real or imagined.
 
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ginnie6 said:
Update...

]AP source: NFL pro killed five people, then himself in York County, S.C. shooting

On my phone so can someone copy the article in?
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AP source: NFL pro killed five people, then himself in York County, S.C. shooting




Five killed, including two children, in shooting at York County home
By WBTV Web Staff | April 7, 2021 at 6:07 PM EDT - Updated April 8 at 10:19 AM
YORK COUNTY, S.C. (WBTV/AP) - The gunman who killed five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife, their two grandchildren and a worker, was a former NFL pro Phillip Adams, the Associated Press reports. Adams killed himself early Thursday, according to a source who was briefed on the investigation.
The 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, and that he had been treated by the doctor. The source said Phillips killed himself after midnight with a .45 caliber weapon.

The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. on Marshall Road.
Dr. Robert Lesslie, 70 (pictured below), and his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69, were pronounced dead, as were 9-year-old Adah Lesslie and 5-year-old Noah Lesslie.
Dr. Robert Lesslie

Dr. Robert Lesslie (Source: WBTV)
A fifth victim, identified as 38-year-old James Lewis, from Gaston County, was working at the home when he was fatally shot, according to the York County coroner’s office.
A sixth person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries from gunshot wounds.


“We are shocked that this type of incident happened here,” said Trent Faris, with the York County Sheriff’s Office. “This is a very tragic situation.”

Dr. Lesslie was a prominent doctor in Rock Hill who published several books. Lesslie and his wife were married for at least 35 years.

Faris said Dr. Lesslie started the Riverview Medical Center.
“I’ve lived in Rock Hill my whole life and Dr. Lesslie was my doctor,” Faris said. “A lot of people know doctor Lesslie.”
The shooting led to an hours-long search for what officers called an “armed and dangerous” suspect.
The person deputies believe is responsible for the shooting was found at his home on Marshall Road. Investigators have not released a motive or said whether the alleged shooter knew the victims.
Deputies said they were at the home conducting a search warrant.
Officers would not say if the suspect was alive.

“None of us can figure out why,” Faris said.
Law enforcement helicopters and drones were used to look for the suspect, who was later identified by an AP source as NFL player Phillip Adams. Officials asked citizens in the area to stay inside their homes and lock their doors during the search.

Copyright 2021 WBTV. All rights reserved.
 
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The issue is that CTE doesn't LEAVE identifiable "motives". The thought processes are, MUCH more bizarre than usual.
 
WFK

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who is number 7?
Sheriff says 5 people killed (4 family + one helper at the home) PLUS one
with serious injuries in the hospital. He says nothing about the perpetrator dead or captured.
Other reports say 5 killed and the perpetrator killed himself with a 45.
There is still contradicting info about the shooter getting shot or killing himself.
It will get sorted out eventually.... But why did the guy wipe out a family and maybe one guy at the wrong place at the wrong time?
 
Oscar Wilde

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2ndAmendican said:
When are people going to wake up and see the truth?
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... and then what?
Brave, free peepses have had truth force fed to them over the past two centuries resulting in a bit of uneasyness, skittishness and occasional distress but wee peepses remain steadfast in our usual manner proclaiming to our leaders, officials, authorities
"doo sumpthin, save us, fix this."

If there were just something to vote on or foreign land to invade and spread some democracticness ... Canada mehbe.

O.W.
 
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When people group A is told, from cradle to crypt, that all other different people groups are their enemies and are responsible for all of group A’s misery and failures in life, then group A is going to go to war. Fight for survival.

Im almost 60. My entire life, we’ve had a multitude of race baiters and hate preachers whipping this group into a frenzy and provoking them to war, as well as arming them and coordinating them. This will continue until this gets stopped, and, at the violent end, those responsible for the madness are executed.

Inflammatory hate speech and fighting words, by law, are criminal for just this reason. Remember, if you’re among the survivors, just who’s to blame for this evil....and do what you can to stomp that evil out forever.
 
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And you're correct Oscar that no one will do a damn thing. At least until things go hot. Maybe, just maybe, with a little luck those still standing at the end will round up what's left and ship them elsewhere and make sure it NEVER happens again. A man can dream can't he?
 
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NFL ........loading with violent people.........51% of all NFL players have a felon.........and among Black players it is 75%.

CTE...........brain damage in NFL players..........a classic sign is going ballistic on others with violent/fatal behavior and then killing yourself as well.....that could be in play here too.

Black............see my post earlier about Black culture/ancestry and then add the above..............and you see the results.
 
PghPanther

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Oscar Wilde said:
I share your sentiment Brother but no shipping ... a thorough cleansing of cretins of all stripes.

O.W.
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If I was in full control of this country I would have any violent criminal sterilized on their first offense...................and then sterilize any welfare collecting single woman after their 1st child ..........

Do that from here on out......and within one generation you'd have a major permanent improvement in society.

I guess I can dream too.........
 
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PghPanther said:
All this seems so shocking to Whites...........it shouldn't.

The problem is you are thinking from a White Western culture prospective.................

Here are the social/behavioral traits of native African societies of which American Black ancestral traits have had for 50,000 years plus and unchanged to this day where tribes exists as hunter gatherers in the Sub Sharan .......

1) Courtship and romance do not exist. There is not even a word in to define romance in most Sub-Saharan Africa cultures.

2) Single dwelling families do not exist in the manner of being faithful to one another......children are not raised by a committed single home family but by the tribal village. (remember commie Hillary's child rearing book "It takes a village?" to push the state on a child's upbringing instead of the family?......that title was based on African tribal behavior). As a result of this behavior, women in Africa have many children in their lifetime from a variety of males. (Can you see why are welfare program plays right into enhancing that today?)

3) Outside of your local tribe you trust or care for nobody else. Outside of your tribe a death is meaningless to you and empathy does not exist.

4) Within your tribe you take or share anything from anyone else....private property is an unknown concept in tribal behavior. Nor is respect of property known in African culture. Socialism is a natural for Africans to latch on to as a result. (Should it surprise you they vote democratic as a result?)

5) Outside of your tribe you can plunder and take anything including humans as property (slaves) or even in some cases today still kill and eat them. Of course using them as slaves is still going on today in some parts of Africa and is an accepted practice that was the source of all other races taking them as slaves in the past. (but that is in the past for all other races today except Africa)

6) Life is cheap in Africa....death is common place from disease, starvation and animal predators....as a result death is looked at with very little empathy relative to Western culture.

7) Predatory nature is a struggle in Africa......you must look, react and retaliate instantly for the moment or end up dead from snake bites, alligators and other predators.............case in point. Snake bits kill 5 to 10% of Africans in tribes......in the US 1 out of 10 million people die from a snake bite.

8) Hunter gatherers do not store food.............there is no survival skill in the abstract, forethought and long term strategic planning.......you survive one day at a time.

9) Cleanliness is unknown.........feces are everywhere and the wind blows their bacteria throughout the air causing much sickness and disease.

10) Non scientific superstitious beliefs rule the day in tribal behavior...........spirits, witch doctors and behavior strange and obscene to Western culture is the norm. (i.e. cow urine showers to lighten hair/sand put in women's vaginas to heighten sexual pleasure during intercourse for males)

11) There is no object law or justice in tribal behavior that supersedes the tribe of which it is carried out in..........justice is personal and done swiftly without recourse. It is unorganized and anthropologically identical to how male baboon species act in its retaliation.

I know of each of these traits listed above from my anthropological studies in college (before PC came about) and of this personally from a roommate I had in college...........he was White, from a missionary family.......born in Chad African and live there for the first 16 years of his life........

.....and I also learned it from a native Nigerian teammate on my soccer team in college who even had tribal marks are his forehead.

Now take these behaviors of which Africans have been naturally selected in social evolution for those survival traits over 50,000 years and put them into a Modern Western society.

Connect the dots.............and you will see why the US is full of St. George /St. Mike / St. Trevon and Rodney King type behavior.......
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Exactly.

Yet stupid white women by the millions spread their legs for them - insanity.

Occasionally I run across a black who is completely normal and I wonder if somewhere in Africa there was a tribe of normal people. How could that small tribe have survived these animals?
 
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PghPanther said:
If I was in full control of this country I would have any violent criminal sterilized on their first offense...................and then sterilize any welfare collecting single woman after their 1st child ..........

Do that from here on out......and within one generation you'd have a major permanent improvement in society.

I guess I can dream too.........
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I read somewhere that China had black slaves as well but castrated the males - don't know.
 
mzkitty

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Hognutz

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Coulter said:
Exactly.

Yet stupid white women by the millions spread their legs for them - insanity.

Occasionally I run across a black who is completely normal and I wonder if somewhere in Africa there was a tribe of normal people. How could that small tribe have survived these animals?
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Though not stated yet, I am going with the old standard coal burning thing going on. With nigras most of the time it involves “muh dik “....

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mzkitty

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I give up.
*snip*

Update 3:55 p.m. ET April 8: Family members identified the sole survivor of Wednesday’s shooting in Rock Hill as Robert Shook of Cherryville, WSOC-TV reported.

Family members asked for prayers as surgeons continue working to save his life.
His family asked for prayers. He has been in surgery since late this morning. https://t.co/dTLmOvh0SG
— Ken (@kenlemonWSOC9) April 8, 2021
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Update 3:50 p.m. ET April 8: Family members told WSOC-TV that James Lewis, one of the five people killed when a gunman opened fire at a home in Rock Hill on Wednesday, that the 38-year-old “helped anybody.”
“He was my best friend”
I’m talking to Tom Lewis the father of the Gastonia technician killed in a mass shooting at a home outside of Rock Hill. James Lewis was there working on the AC when a gunman killed the family at the home and Lewis, then critically injured Lewis’ coworker pic.twitter.com/NkleSRPA7R
— Ken (@kenlemonWSOC9) April 8, 2021
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“He was a kind guy, a great dad,” Lewis’ mother, Linda Tucker, told the news station. “It’s just so stupid.”

Lewis was an only child and a single father to three children, family members said. They told WSOC that Lewis became an HVAC technician to earn a better living to support his children.

“I keep on expecting to wake up, ‘Oh, it was just a bad dream,’ but it’s not. It’s real,” his father, Tom Lewis, said. “I would like to find out why this guy did what he did. I would like a lot more than that at times.”
Father of 3 killed in SC mass shooting. Pray for his children! #WSOC‘I keep expecting to wake up’: HVAC tech, father of 3 killed in SC mass shooting
— Damany (@DamanyWSOC9) April 8, 2021
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Update 2:50 p.m. ET April 8: Deputies found two men shot, one fatally, outside the Lesslie family’s home in Rock Hill on Wednesday after responding to reports of a shooting at the home.

The men were air conditioning technicians who were working at the house when Phillip Adams, 33, opened fire on them before forcing his way into the home, York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson said Thursday. Deputies found the men suffering gunshot wounds in the driveway at their work vans.

James Lewis, 38, died of his wounds. Tolson said the other technician, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.

In a backroom inside the home, authorities found 70-year-old Dr. Robert Lesslie; his wife, 69-year-old Barbara Lesslie; and the couple’s grandchildren, 9-year-old Adah Lesslie and 5-year-old Noah Lesslie, dead of gunshot wounds, York said.

The motive behind the shooting remained unclear Thursday.

“We have probably more questions than what you do about this case right now,” York said. “We are working hard to provide some answers. Obviously, one answer is why. That is a question that we are probing as we speak with numerous investigators. We hope to be able to get to those answers and provide some why to the family, most importantly.”

Update 2:35 p.m. ET April 8: York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson on Thursday shared a pair of 911 calls made Wednesday afternoon, after a gunman killed five people and injured a sixth during a shooting at a home in Rock Hill.

Second 911 call that came in - man says he was mowing grass and heard about 20 shots @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/q2f8l40R60
— Susanna Black (@SusannaWSOC9) April 8, 2021
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Second 911 call continued @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/V3FCNEDqmb
— Susanna Black (@SusannaWSOC9) April 8, 2021
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Update 2:20 p.m. ET April 8: York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson shared a statement Thursday from the families of some of the victims of Wednesday’s deadly shooting in Rock Hill.

“We are truly in the midst of the unimaginable,” relatives of the Lesslie family said in the statement. “While we know there are no answers that will satisfy the question ‘why,’ we are sure of one thing: we do not grieve as those without hope. Our hope is found in the promise of Jesus Christ and we are enveloped by peace that surpasses all understanding. To that end, our hearts are bent towards forgiveness and peace, toward love and connectedness, toward celebration and unity.”

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South Carolina shooting: Former NFL pro Phillip Adams killed 5, then himself

The man suspected of killing five people, including a prominent doctor and two children, during a shooting Wednesday at a home in Rock Hill has been identified as former NFL cornerback Phillip Adams.
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Ex-NFL Player Behind Horrific Mass Murder-Suicide In South Carolina Home
Tyler Durden's Photo

BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, APR 08, 2021 - 05:40 PM
There were shocking headlines of another mass shooting Thursday morning - this time at a home in a South Carolina suburb - but it was only later in the afternoon that police identified that a longtime professional football player was behind the murder rampage and suicide.
Ex-NFL player Phillip Adams killed five people and wounded a sixth victim on Wednesday before turning the .45-caliber handgun on himself. He shot a prominent doctor that was reported to have been treating Adams as well as the doctor's wife and their two grandchildren, before later killing himself after he sought refuge in his parents' house with police outside. Another man who had been working at the home where the killings took place was also shot and pronounced dead at the scene.
Phillip Adams in 2010 when he played for the San Francisco 49ers, via AP

York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson during an initial news conference said "there's nothing right now that makes sense to any of us," and indicated police have yet to identify a motive.
However, Adams' distraught father told a local television station that injuries sustained during his football career are to blame:
"I can say he's a good kid — he was a good kid, and I think the football messed him up," Alonzo Adams told WCNC-TV. "He didn't talk much and he didn't bother nobody."
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A brief review of the NFL player's career for multiple teams is as follows:
Adams, a cornerback, played in college for South Carolina State. The San Francisco 49ers picked him in the seventh round of the 2010 draft, and he played there until he was released before the 2011 season. He went on to play for five more teams: the New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders, New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons. His final year in the NFL was 2015.
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Tragically the 33-year old Adams even took the lives of children during the rampage:

Prominent York County doctor Robert Lesslie, 70, his wife Barbara Lesslie, 69, and their grandchildren, 9-year-old Adah Lesslie and 5-year-old Noah Lesslie, were all pronounced dead at the scene. James Lewis, 38, who was working at the house at the time, was found shot to death outside. A sixth victim sustained "serious gunshot wounds" and was hospitalized, York County Sheriff’s Office’s spokesperson Trent Faris said.
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The tragic killings have sparked widespread speculation that Adams could have been suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) which has been subject of immense controversy in the league over the past multiple years.

Alex Giles WBTV

@AlexGilesNews
NEW: @RepRalphNorman tells me his understanding is that Dr. Robert Lesslie was treating Phillip Adams and had stopped giving Adams medication - he says he was told that triggered the killings - Norman says he was told this by law enforcement. @WBTV_News

ESPN among others is highlighting the possibility - but again it remains pure speculation...


Dexter Granderson

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Chris Benoit, Aaron Hernandez, Jovan Belcher, and now Phillip Adams. How much is too much before we actually do something about the obvious dangerous effects of long term brain damage?


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BREAKING: The gunman who killed five people including a prominent doctor in South Carolina was former NFL pro Phillip Adams, who killed himself, according to a source who was briefed on the investigation. Authorities: NFL player Phillip Adams killed 5, then himself
As a rookie late in the 2010 season, Adams suffered a severe ankle injury that required surgery that included several screws being inserted into the leg. He never played for the 49ers again, getting released just before the 2011 season began. Later, with the Raiders, he had 2 concussions over 3 games in 2012.
Whether he suffered long-lasting concussion-related injuries wasn't immediately clear. Adams would not have been eligible for testing as part of a broad settlement between the league and its former players over such injuries, because he hadn't retired by 2014.
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The major settlement referenced by ESPN and spotlighting of potential long term brain damage being found in professional football players was focus on the 2015 Hollywood movie Concussion which brought huge public attention to the issue.

The movie presented fictional accounts of NFL players committing suicide and threatening loved ones - which were based on true accounts of murder-suicides involving NFL players over prior years.
 
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summerthyme

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Dozdoats said:
Thought processes? THOUGHT PROCESSES???

Please, Chuck. Get real. These are EXCUSES.
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I agree. Two of my sons played high school football. The youngest had to quit after sustaining a serious concussion (non-football related) The older one was good enough to be recruited for college ball... but he declined all the offers and chose to go to a top engineering school instead. He'd had at least two concussions playing football (and one playing soccer when he and another player literally knocked heads together going for the ball) and decided he preferred his thinking to be unscrambled.

I've had too much experience with post concussion syndrome... but oddly, even the one with two *severe* closed head injuries in 5 years never thought about killing someone! We emphasized emotional control, as well as recognizing when he was losing it, and he learned to walk away and calm himself down.

I think the REAL reason was the doctor was prescribing him "good" drugs, and decided to stop.

Summerthyme
 
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