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Coroner to issue brain test results of NFL player who shot 6

By MICHELLE LIU
Associated Press

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — A coroner is set to release the results of a degenerative brain disease test on the former NFL player who was accused of fatally shooting six people in Rock Hill, South Carolina before killing himself in April. The family of Phillip Adams agreed shortly after his death to have his brain tested for chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The degenerative disease is linked to head trauma and concussions. Authorities said Adams killed a prominent Rock Hill physician, his wife, two of the couple’s grandchildren and two air conditioning technicians working at the couple’s home. Police tracked him to his parents’ home where they found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

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