A York County sheriff's deputy is parked near a residence where multiple people, including a prominent doctor, were fatally shot a day earlier, on April 8, 2021, in Rock Hill, S.C.Nell Redmond/The Associated Press
An air conditioning technician has become the sixth person to die after being shot by a former National Football League player at a South Carolina home last Wednesday, the county coroner said.
Robert Shook, 38, was shot in the driveway of the Rock Hill, S.C., home where he had been working, the York County sheriff said, and he died from his wounds on Saturday.
The gunman, whom officials identified as Phillip Adams, 32, opened fire at the home of doctor Robert Lesslie, 70, and his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69, killing the couple, two of their grandchildren – nine-year-old Adah Lesslie and five-year-old Noah Lesslie – and James Lewis, 38, another air conditioning technician, the county sheriff’s office said.
“We are all heart broken,” the men’s employer GSM Services posted on Facebook on Saturday.
Adams, who left the National Football League more than five years ago, died from a single gunshot to the head at his home a short distance from the murder scene. Investigators have not identified a motive for the shootings.
“We have probably more questions than you do right now,” York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson told reporters on Thursday.
There was no indication that Adams had any relationship with Lesslie or his family, Tolson said.
The gunman’s father, Alonzo Adams, suggested the shooting outburst was the result of injuries his son sustained during his football career, in which he played as a defensive back with five teams, finishing with the Atlanta Falcons in 2015.
“I think the football messed him up,” he told WCNC-TV in Charlotte, N.C.
Asked to comment, an NFL spokesperson said, “Our hearts go out to the families and friends of the victims of this devastating tragedy.”
Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines. Sign up today.