{"id":24439,"date":"2025-07-20T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24439\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:37:08","slug":"mississippi-freshman-corey-adams-18-was-killed-in-a-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24439\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi freshman Corey Adams, 18, was killed in a shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Adams, an 18-year-old freshman football player at Mississippi, was shot and killed on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Via Adam Rittenberg of ESPN.com, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/45782523\/ole-miss-freshman-lineman-corey-adams-killed-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Adams died at the scene<\/a> in Cordova, Tennessee. Four other men were shot in the incident. None were listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Shelby County sheriff\u2019s deputies found Adams inside a car, after responding to the report of a shooting. They tried to save him before paramedics arrived and pronounced him dead.<\/p>\n<p>Adams was a defensive lineman who twice earned all-state honors while playing high-school football in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile our program is trying to cope with this tragic loss, our thoughts are with his loved ones during this incredibly difficult time,\u201d Ole Miss said in a statement. \u201cOut of respect for his family, we will not be commenting further at this time. We ask the Ole Miss community to keep Corey in their thoughts and respect the privacy of everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We extend our condolences to Adams\u2019s family, friends, teammates, and coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Adams, an 18-year-old freshman football player at Mississippi, was shot and killed on Saturday night. Via Adam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-24439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}