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Associated Press
Jul 21, 2025, 07:37 PM ET
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Authorities connected Monday asked the nationalist to supply surveillance footage and sought details from eyewitnesses arsenic they analyse the fatal shooting of an Ole Miss freshman shot subordinate successful a Memphis vicinity aft a excavation party.
Corey Adams, an 18-year-old antiaircraft lineman from New Orleans, was recovered with a gunshot coiled wrong a conveyance astatine an intersection successful the Memphis suburb of Cordova connected Saturday night, said Anthony Buckner, main lawman of the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. Adams died astatine the determination of the shooting.
Four different men, who suffered gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening, arrived astatine adjacent hospitals successful idiosyncratic vehicles. Three of them had been released from the infirmary arsenic of Monday afternoon, Buckner said.
The shooting happened aft a excavation enactment attended by astir 100 people, including Adams, Buckner said during a quality conference. About 40 firearm and pistol casings were recovered astatine the shooting scene.
No arrests person been made. Buckner asked members of the nationalist who mightiness person accusation utile to investigators, including surveillance footage from video cameras astatine neighbors' homes, to travel forward.
"We person acold much questions close present than we person answers," Buckner said. "We cognize radical saw thing oregon heard something."
Adams, who played astatine Edna Carr High School successful New Orleans, is listed connected the Ole Miss shot website arsenic a 6-foot-4, 235-pound antiaircraft end. He had been 1 of the apical antiaircraft lineman recruits successful the country.
Adams' mother, who spoke astatine the quality league but declined to beryllium named for fearfulness of retribution, said Adams was a loving lad and member who had hopes of playing successful the NFL. Adams had clip disconnected from signifier and went to Memphis to bask himself, she said.
Memphis is astir 85 miles northbound of Oxford, Mississippi, wherever Ole Miss is located.
The Edna Karr Cougars wrote successful a Facebook station that "words can't picture this benignant of pain."
"Corey Adams was much than a shot player! He was a friend, brother, son, student, and each astir large young man," the team's station read. "We ne'er question God but this is 1 we conscionable don't understand."
