Alonzo Adams, the father of former NFL player Phillip Adams, spoke to NBC News affiliate station WCNC after his son allegedly shot and killed five people in South Carolina. Adams says he thinks “football messed him up.â€ÂÂ
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Former NFL Player’s Father Speaks Out After Son Allegedly Kills Five People | NBC News NOW
Hmmmmm…. very shady.
This father would not survive this tragedy. Poor guy. The son did the best thing by taking his life.
I would of rolled off and ran over his foot!
This fathers hurting too news leave him alone.There’s victim’s on both sides.Like he ask please pray for all.
I'm so sad seeing this. God bless all souls..
I feel sorry for the guy's father.
Joe Biden is pushing for gun control. The media is rushing for it to happen by reporting dozens of mass shootings to give our corrupt leaders an excuse to take our second amendment.
feel so bad for his father ðŸ’â€Â
This is so sad! Poor father is so heartbroken and sweet…let him grieve his son lost and have some respect thirsty cold clot chaser!….
CNN headline: "a disenfranchised NFL player strikes a blow against white supremacy by mowing down an entitled white family of 5 who had been oppressing him and his people for centuries".
The media are disgusting.
Sorry dad your boy was a killer, a bad guy. That is how he will be remembered. You did not raise him to respect life and others.
Ned GOT OLD. Look at NED. AMAZIN. There izn.t any NED ANYMORE. He GOT OLD. AMAZIN.
ðŸ™ÂÂðŸÂ¿ Prayers for the families !!
That brain injury 😕wow this is awful 😢
Oh it was the football that pulled the trigger 🙄
So many people suffer in silence
Check on loved ones
The mind can play tricks on you
We will be praying for you this was a terrible tragedy. He lost his son and also his pain for his son and the victims. May God bless you all
WAS a good kid? really dude?ðŸ¤â€Â🙄ðŸ¤â€Â
Why they bother the dad?
The reporter taking advantage of this man's shock and grief is inexcusable. No decency, no mercy, no kindness. And no excuse on the part of the reporter.
God bless you and your family,prayers!
For Pete’s sake, leave dad alone!
God Bless.
He is still grieving leave that old man alone.
Wish media would show the truth of what is really going on with COVID and the government
How disgusting this man killed little children to I don’t see no riots going on over there is
OMG>..stop asking obvious questions! What an immature reporter.
"He was a good kid and never hurt nobody"???
How about taking responsibilities and saying "It was his fault"? Your son f**ked up!
I sure hope Iyanla Vanzant is called on to help these families process all of this
Near real color around forehead
Sending out prayers for all involved.
Suspect isn't white, so allegedly goes in title. Got it
Prayer for all of them! Lord comfort those left behind with all that pain â¤ï¸ÂÂðŸ™ÂÂ
This is proof that the father was in his son life and his son still grew up to destroy other peoples lives. Everyone got mental problems but this is a pattern that must be noticed. The two parent household is a lie, it’s genes and a failing Y chromosome why these types of people keep doing criminal activities.
I didn't know a cold blooded killer was a GOOD KID I guess al capone was a good guy too
If only guns were not accessible… such tragedies wouldn't be happening. Mentally ill person would just go and scream at somebody and then he'd be taken to mental hospital, if only guns were not accessible… there would not be 5 dead innocent people just because of someone's mental breakdown
Next thing they will be filming animals dieing after being run over by cars. Or people screaming of pain in the ER. These people are like vultures with a camera.
Nbc sucks
I am truly appalled by this reporter and camera crew. This man is a victim, too. He lost his child and is also suffering grief, knowing what his own child had done prior to commiting suicide. He is exhausted, distressed and obviously does not have the answers that of course everyone would love to know; The "Why did he do this?".
I wish media wouldn't be so aggressive in getting to family members. I cried just watching this Father try and answer the reporter's questions. I know they have a job to do. I know delivering the news to the general public is an important right of the populous. However, when did we lose all morals and ethics? I am certain that the families of all the victims had issued statements, usually concluded by imploring desperately for privacy. His parents and family also are grieving… That was their son. He's not here on Earth for his Daddy or anyone to ask him why.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams, I am praying for your family as well as the other families. I cannot imagine what they all are going through. I pray God comforts you, wraps His arms around your family, as only He can.
This has been one of the saddest stories. I mourn deeply for The Doctor's family, especially the parents of the two young children. I mourn for the two workers from Gastonia Sheet Metal, that were just there, doing the same jobs they did every day. We all never know what things can and do happen in the blink of an eye. Bless this Father's heart; he only asked for prayers. Know you have them from me, Sir. 😢
You should have taught your son not to hate whites. This was a hate crime.
Brain damage from brain damage has been known for over a century when boxers were mocked for going crazy.
Now we pretend it's new but still sweep it under the rug. While we do not know if that is the case here, it certainly does no one any favors.
He killed innocent grandchildren.. He's not a "good kid" that's a monster.
"Never let a crisis go to waste", so stick your phucking camera in the father's face, you inconsiderate morons.
Probably drugs could be a factor
So because his son played football and it messed him up he kills 5 people 2 are kids. This is so disgraceful. I don't know how this dad can talk like that. And isn't this a black on white murder? No excuse that he didn't have a chance in life. Maybe they should make a film about it and white people should make a white lives matter group and go on like every black person is racist? It's that not fair?