Overview

• Corey Adams, an 18-year-old freshman defensive lineman at Ole Miss, was found with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle following a late-night shooting on July 19 in Cordova, Tennessee.
• Shelby County detectives have opened a homicide investigation after recovering multiple shell casings from the scene and have made no arrests to date.
• Four other men sustained non-critical injuries outside a home on Fern Glade Cove and were treated at area hospitals.
• The University of Mississippi football program and Edna Karr High School issued statements expressing devastation over Adams’s death and requested privacy for his grieving family.
• A three-star recruit from New Orleans, Adams twice earned all-state honors at Edna Karr before enrolling early at Ole Miss this winter as part of a nationally ranked class.