Overview

• Corey Adams, an 18-year-old early enrollee at Ole Miss, was found with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle near Fern Glade Cove and pronounced dead at the scene after sheriff’s deputies provided life-saving measures.
• Four other men were injured in the same shooting and taken to Memphis hospitals in noncritical condition.
• Shelby County Sheriff’s Office detectives recovered multiple shell casings at the scene and are urging witnesses to contact Crimestoppers with any information.
• The University of Mississippi football program and Adams’s former Edna Karr High School community issued statements mourning his loss and requesting privacy for his family.
• Adams had enrolled early at Ole Miss after a standout New Orleans high school career and was set to join fall camp before his promising season was cut tragically short.