Ole Miss freshman football player Corey Adams was killed in a shooting in Tennessee, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office introduced Sunday.
Law enforcement officers discovered Adams with a gunshot wound inside a car at an intersection in Cordova on the outskirts of Memphis late Saturday, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
“They offered life-saving measures till Shelby County Fire arrived,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. “Shelby County Fire personnel later pronounced the sufferer deceased on the scene.”
Four different males who suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds in the incident arrived at close by hospitals in private automobiles, authorities mentioned.
Law enforcement officers haven’t named any suspects however mentioned they’re investigating the shooting as a murder.
Adams, an 18-year-old New Orleans native, had been one of many high defensive linemen recruits in the nation.
The football program on the University of Mississippi mentioned in a social media put up it was “devastated” to study of Adams’ dying.
“While our program is attempting to deal with this tragic loss, our ideas are along with his family members throughout this extremely troublesome time,” the staff mentioned. “We ask the Ole Miss neighborhood to maintain Corey in their ideas and respect the privateness of everybody concerned.”
Adams’ former New Orleans highschool football staff, the Edna Karr Cougars, mentioned in a Facebook put up that “phrases cannot describe this sort of ache.”
“Corey Adams was greater than a football player! He was a good friend, brother, son, scholar, and throughout nice younger man,” the staff acknowledged. “We by no means query God however that is one we simply do not perceive.”
