A University of Mississippi football player was killed Saturday night in a shooting in Tennessee, according to law enforcement.
Corey Adams, a freshman at Ole Miss, was one of five people shot. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of gunfire outside a residence on Fern Gland Cove in Cordova around 10:15 p.m. That’s where they found Adams who, after life-saving measures were attempted, was pronounced deceased.
“When deputies arrived at the intersection of Forest Hill-Irene and Walnut Grove, they stopped a vehicle, finding an adult male gunshot victim,” the sheriff’s office noted in a social media post early Sunday morning. “They provided life-saving measures until Shelby Couty Fire arrived. Shelby County Fire personnel later pronounced the victim deceased on the scene.”
“SCSO detectives have identified the victim in last night’s homicide as 18-year-old Corey Adams of New Orleans, Louisiana. The investigation is ongoing,” a later update shared by the agency read.
Adams was the only fatality from the incident. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said four other adult males were transported to local hospitals by private vehicles and are listed in non-critical condition.
According to the University of Mississippi’s athletics site, Adams was a defensive end who enrolled this past January and was majoring in freshman studies. A three-star prospect out of Edna Karr High School in New Orleans, he was heading into his first collegiate season.
Neither the university nor its football program has issued a statement on Adams’ death at this time.
