A sixth person was declared dead as a result of a shooting that occurred last week in a home in York County, South Carolina.
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Robert Shook, 38, died from injuries he sustained from the shooting, according to York County Coroner Sabrina Gast. Shook was working at the home as an air conditioning technician when former NFL player Phillip Adams allegedly gunned down five people on April 8.
Rock Hill doctor Robert Lesslie and his wife Barbara and their two grandchildren, 9-year-old Adah Lesslie and 5-year-old Noah Lesslie, as well as James Lewis, another air conditioning technician, were all killed at the home of the Lesslie family.
The shooting was reportedly a short distance away from Adams’s parents’ house. The athlete shot himself with a .45 caliber gun shortly after the incident. Police are still investigating what the possible motive might have been.
Adams’s brain is being examined for potential degenerative disease that may prompt violent mood swings or other mental health disorders, particularly in athletes or military personnel.
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As a professional football player, Adams played for several teams, including the Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks, and the New York Jets as a defensive back from 2010 to 2015. He had criminal charges from 2016 pending against him.
