The reporting about his financial situation does not make sense, al0ng with many other bits of this story.
He’s so broke he has no car insurance, is living with parents, but was recently opening a juice bar just prior to the pandemic....and planning some philanthropic donation to the community.
But...
Who was Phillip Adams? Shocked friends of ex-NFL player speak after SC mass shooting
“Rock Hill resident C.T. Kirk, a middle school teacher, knew the Adams family, and his wife was close to Phillip’s mother, Phyllis.
Kirk said that Adams had plans in motion to give back to Rock Hill, including starting a business that provides healthy food options to families who can’t afford them.
Casterline said Adams planned to start a juice company prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but he didn’t think that had worked out, and that Adams spent some time with the Rock Hill High football team.”
He felt the NFL was messing with his disability application but in the NYT article, friends say he wasn’t interested in applying.
He had a chance to try out again just a few years ago, but his agent says he didn’t make the trip. In one article, he arrived at the airport too late. In another, he got the call to go...too late to get to the airport. Some agent if that’s the case.
Close to family, says these reports, but sister says he essentially disappeared for a year. Although other news reports have him living about 20 minutes away. So did this close family just write him off too? Was it mutual? If he was that close, no one took the initiative? Or is ‘close to family’ just a sympathetic portrayal?
Recent reporting indicates that there is no verification of any professional relationship between Adams and the Dr. (Charlotte Observer article above). They may well have just been a family that lived down the road. Right now, there is nothing to indicate it was anything other than that. That’s a lot of rage toward strangers.
The killing of the two poor workmen...away from the crime scene and not family members or love ones of the Doctor is key to me. They were shot several times...that’s intention to kill them, not scare them.
As hard as it is to imagine...he fired 20 shots at 5 people, including 2 little children. Adams was set off and on a mission IMO.
I am a bit mystified at the sympathetic coverage of this killer. When someone bursts into a home, a shop, a church...and just massacres with multiple shots anyone they can, it’s quite strange when the first reaction is to find some way to excuse the killer.
Why did he kill all these innocent souls? And then killed himself so we have no answers, just left broken families picking up the pieces. 
