Autopsy of former NFL player accused of killing 6 showed 'unusually severe' CTE

An autopsy released Tuesday revealed that the erstwhile NFL subordinate accused of fatally shooting six radical past himself successful South Carolina successful April suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

According to the Associated Press, the autopsy showed that Phillip Adams had "unusually severe" encephalon illness successful his frontal lobes.

Authorities accidental that connected April 7, Adams showed up astatine the Rock Hill location of Dr. Robert Lesslie, sidesplitting him, Lesslie's woman Barbara, their grandchildren Adah and Noah, and 2 HVAC technicians James Lewis and Robert Shook.

The quality outlet reported that the 2 men were moving extracurricular the location astatine the clip of the killing.

After the shootings, officers tracked him to his parent's home, wherever they recovered him dormant of a self-inflicted gunshot coiled to the head.

The AP reported that aft his death, Adams' household agreed to person his encephalon tested for the disease.

The doc who examined the erstwhile shot player's brain, Dr. Ann McKee, told the AP that playing 20 years of the athletics "definitely ... gave rise" to being diagnosed with Stage 2 CTE.

CTE has 4 stages, with the 4th signifier being the astir terrible and usually associated with dementia.