{"id":78997,"date":"2025-07-20T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78997\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:37:09","slug":"college-football-freshman-killed-in-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78997\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Freshman Killed In Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breaking: College Football Freshman Killed In Shooting<\/a> originally appeared on The Spun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A college football player was tragically shot and killed in a shooting on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

Corey Adams, a freshman football player at Ole Miss, was fatally shot in Tennessee on Saturday night. The freshman college football player was killed late Saturday night (July 19) in a shooting that left four other men injured, according to the police.<\/p>\n

The shooting took place outside a residence on Fern Glade Cove in Cordova, which is an eastern suburb of Memphis.<\/p>\n

“When deputies arrived at the intersection of Forest Hill-Irene and Walnut Grove, they stopped a vehicle, finding an adult male gunshot victim. They provided life-saving measures until Shelby County Fire arrived,” the statement by police read.<\/p>\n

“Shelby County Fire personnel later pronounced the victim deceased on the scene. Upon arrival at Fern Glade Cove, deputies found multiple shell casings and learned that four adult males arrived by personal vehicles to area hospitals with gunshot wounds. All four victims are listed in non-critical condition.<\/p>\n

“This shooting is an active homicide investigation by SCSO detectives. Anyone with information about this shooting is encouraged to call Crimestoppers at 528-CASH.”<\/p>\n

Adams, a 6-foot-4 defensive lineman, is originally from New Orleans. He was just 18 years old.<\/p>\n

“Rated a unanimous three-star prospect by all major recruiting outlets \u2026 Ranked as a No. 43 best defensive lineman recruit in the country by On3 \u2026 Tabbed as a top-30 recruit in the state of Louisiana by ESPN, Rivals, and 247Sports \u2026 Ranked as high as No. 16 in the state by On3 \u2026 Two-time first-team all-state honoree \u2026 Two-time first-team all-district selection \u2026 Recorded 51 tackles, 15 tackles for a loss, 12 sacks, one pick six and six batted passes his junior year \u2026 Registered 62 tackles, 19 sacks, 21 tackles for a loss, one fumble recovery and four batted passes his senior year \u2026 Chose Ole Miss over offers from LSU, Texas A&M and Oregon, among others \u2026 Coached by Gerod Burr \u2026 Will be a mid-year enrollee,” his bio reads.<\/p>\n

Ole Miss released a statement.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re heartbroken by the passing of Corey Adams. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and all who knew and loved him,” they wrote.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts are with his friends and family members.<\/p>\n

Breaking: College Football Freshman Killed In Shooting<\/a> first appeared on The Spun on Jul 20, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Jul 20, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking: College Football Freshman Killed In Shooting originally appeared on The Spun. A college football player was tragically…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[43865,54452,54453,1318,54454,10771,2970,1317,1315,1316,1714,12948,212,62,1229,11426,67,132,68,54455],"class_list":{"0":"post-78997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football-player","9":"tag-corey-adams","10":"tag-fern-glade-cove","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-gunshot-victim","13":"tag-gunshot-wounds","14":"tag-lsu","15":"tag-ncaa","16":"tag-ncaa-football","17":"tag-ncaafootball","18":"tag-ole-miss","19":"tag-ole-miss-football","20":"tag-oregon","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-tennessee","23":"tag-texas-am","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-walnut-grove"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114887723861800530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}