2021 Rock Hill shooting

Police received 911 calls starting about 4:45 p.m. EDT. A neighbor called after hearing gunshots, as did the manager of a repair company, who said that two of his employees had been shot.[7] Responding police officers found two repairmen in the yard of the home, one of them dead. Police found evidence at the scene that tied Adams to the shooting.[8]

Around 9:00 p.m. EDT, police surrounded Adams' parents' house. They then spent several hours negotiating with Adams, and sent in a robot to scan the house. Adams' parents were evacuated from the house, and police found Adams dead inside. Police found both a .45-caliber handgun and a 9 mm gun inside the house.[1]

The fatally shot victims included 70-year-old Dr. Robert Lesslie, his wife, Barbara, their two grandchildren, and a man working outside the house at the time. A sixth victim and fellow worker was critically injured in the shooting and was flown to a Charlotte hospital afterwards.[9][10] He died on April 10.[11]

Lesslie was a prominent local doctor who founded two urgent care centers.[12] He wrote a weekly medical column for The Charlotte Observer and was an author of medical advice books.[9] He and his wife were known for their community service and charity.[13] The Lesslie and Adams families were neighbors.[14]

Adams had no prior criminal record.[15] His father, Alonzo, suggested that football may have played a role in the shooting, stating in an interview with WCNC-TV that the sport "messed him up".[5] President Joe Biden mentioned the shooting in a speech about gun reform on April 8.[16] On April 9, researchers at Boston University announced they would be studying Adams' brain.[17] On December 14, 2021, an autopsy revealed that Adams suffered from an "unusually severe" case of the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy.[18]