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The former player of the NFL Phillip Adams He starred in a shooting in the United States last April in which five people died, including two children, inside a home in Rock Hill, in the state of South Carolina. Adams, who played for the San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks, New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons, one committed suicide after carrying out the massacre. According to law enforcement sources, the former NFL broke into the home of Robert Lesslie, a doctor known in the area. Later Adams shot the doctor, his wife and two of his grandchildrenHe also fired shots at two workers who were in the house.
Analysis of your brain
Now, investigations have yielded a troubling diagnosis. The autopsy reveals severe brain damage in the frontal lobe of the former NFL player, Phillip Adams. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain disease found in athletes, military veterans, and others who have suffered a history of repetitive brain trauma. Some of the symptoms of this degenerative brain disease are outbursts of anger and memory loss. The 20 years he was playing football “Undoubtedly led” to the diagnosis of stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, he acknowledged Dr. Ann McKee, charged with examining his brain.
“There are indications that he had obvious behavioral and cognitive problems”McKee explained. “It was not something sudden. He suffered from a disability that got worse. He was more and more paranoid, with serious memory problems and his behavior was more and more impulsive, “he added.
The second stage of this disease is linked to cognitive and behavioral abnormalities, such as aggression, impulsive reactions, depression, paranoia, anxiety, poor executive function, and memory losscontinued McKee who also stressed that the tests performed on Adams’ brain show that his case it is “unusually more serious” than that of other athletes by affecting both frontal lobes.
But this is not the only case of great athletes who became murderers or suicides overnight and many of them were also diagnosed with CTE. These are five of the scariest cases:
1. Aaron Hernandez
Researchers from Boston University revealed that at the time of his suicide, Aaron Hernandez suffered from severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). This star NFL player went from signing a $ 40 million million dollar contract with the Patriots and playing a SuperBowl To be sentenced to life in prison for murder.
Odin Lloyd’s body was found shot in an area near Aaron’s home in the early morning hours of June 17, 2013. Hernandez was tried and sentenced in 2015 to life imprisonment. Two years later, he took his own life in the maximum security prison in Shirley, Massachusetts. He was 27 years old. A few days before he had been found innocent of two more murders, prior to Lloyd’s, for lack of evident evidence. Although there were very clear indications.
The Aaron Hernández story spawned books, television shows, and documentaries. Some time later, it became known through the journalistic work of The Boston Globe that both he and his mother were beaten by his father, he had also been sexually abused when he was little and struggled with his sexual identity, since he had a relationship with a quarterback in high school named Dennis SanSoucie. His shocking story was collected in the Netflix documentary “The Hidden Killer: On the Mind of Aaron Hernandez”.
2. Dave Duerson
Won the super bowl in 1985 while playing for the Chicago Bears. Dave Duerson played in the NFL for 11 seasons, seven of which were with the Bears before retiring after an impressive career in 1993. In 2011 he ended his life. Tanía 50 years old. He was aware that he was suffering from severe brain trauma because when he committed suicide, he left a note requesting that his brain be turned over to the NFL Traumatic Encephalopathy Study Brain Bank. He shot himself in the chest, presumably so as not to destroy his brain. His brain was studied and in fact it was shown that he suffered from CTE.
3. OJ Simpson
Could OJ Simpson be another CTE victim? Without a doubt, his case is the most famous in the criminal history of Sports. The former legendary running back for the Buffalo Bills was one of the best players at his position during the 1970s, but his life ended in tragedy.
In 1994, he was accused of murdering his second wife, Nicole Brown, and friend Ronald Goldman., who appeared outside his ex-wife’s home. She beheaded, with black eyes and broken lips. He was beaten and stabbed 19 times. The Judgment of the Century, as it became known in the media, it stretched from January 1995 to October of that same year.
With evidence against him, he hired a team of lawyers and, after several trials, in 1995 he was found innocent despite the fact that the witnesses assured that he was a violent and jealous man. Several calls from the woman to 911 for abuse were registered. Years later he would be accused of robbery and kidnapping and would be sentenced to nine years in prison.
Bennet Omalu, the doctor who first identified CTE, suggested in 2016 that Simpson could suffer from CTE. ‘I’d bet my medical license’Omalu said bluntly in an interview with ABC News.
4. Jovan Belcher
In December 2012, Jovan Belcher, a player for the Kansas City Chiefs, a first division team of the American Football League of the United States, a shot was fired in the mouth at the entrance to the club premises minutes after he killed his girlfriend. The coach, the CEO and several members of the franchise, who had previously tried to dissuade the athlete, were present when the athlete took his own life.
According to the Kansas City Police Department, around 7 a.m. on December 1, 2012, Belcher, 25, started an argument with his girlfriend at the residence they both shared. 50 minutes later, this one He began shooting at his partner, in front of the player’s mother, who had moved to the city to visit the couple and their three-month-old daughter. The young woman was transferred to the hospital where she died.
After shooting the woman, Belcher went to the Chiefs stadium to attend the training session and there he took his own life. An autopsy of Belcher’s brain revealed that he suffered from CTE, which had caused severe brain damage.
5. Junior Cube
American football player Junior Seau shot himself in the chest in May 2012. The 43-year-old’s brain was examined post-mortem at the urging of his family. Doctors discovered that he had CTE.
“ I think it’s important for everyone to know that Junior did suffer from CTE ”Gina Seau said. ‘It is important that we take steps to help these players. We certainly don’t want something like this to happen to any of our athletes again. ”
Seau had shot himself in the heart, and within hours of his death, researchers contacted his family so they could study Seau’s brain. The scientists, as in previous cases, concluded that his CTE was the result of two decades of head injuries.
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