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Chiefs lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif receives medical degree from McGill


Dr. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif's next challenge: juggling NFL and medicine

 

[Rogue219]

https://moneymorning.com/2020/02/27...otball-legend-to-legendary-cannabis-investor/

I can't stop smiling about this. Great times.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

This is a local story and has impacted a very good family from my home town and intertwines NFL and local SC football players.
Phillip Adams, played football for South Carolina State and the NFL (Raiders others). He lives on a piece of property under Jadaveon Clowney's name near a well know and prominent doctor. I went to school with all of his kids and specifically was very good friends with one of them in both high school and later college. The doctor has stitched me up on many occasions. He was a genuinely good person, his family were every religious, generous, and tightly knit. He specialized in emergency medicine, started multiple emergency clinics, and worked for the ER in local hospital for many years.

Last night him, his wife of 35 years and two grandchildren (9 and 5) + an HVAC repair man were killed in their home by Phillip Adams. One more victim is in critical condition but their ID is unknown. Speculation..... is that the doctor refused to give him more pain medications due to injuries sustained from NFL time and went to their home and shot them. Police found him in his home dead of self inflicted gunshot.

I normally do not ask for this but this family is deserving of all the help they can get. Please put this family in your prayers.
Doctor Robert Lesslie,
Barbara Lesslie
Adah Lesslie
Noah Lesslie

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1380161750851522563[/TWEET]

 

[NDRock]

Terrible story. They give any reason for the killings? You said they were neighbors, correct?

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Terrible story. They give any reason for the killings? You said they were neighbors, correct?

Yes he lived on the same rural road nearby ( the house is under Jadaveon Clowney's name). Speculation is he was receiving treatment from Doctor Lesslie and was refused any more pain medication due to an NFL related injury. All I know from my friends who live near by and wife of a police officer working the scene.

 

[notredomer23]

Terrible Cacky, so sorry your community is going through this.

These type of stories are becoming more and more frequent it seems with past players. The NFL knows they have a massive problem on their hands and it seems they're just going through the motions to make it seem like they are remedying it.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

This sucks. Im literally watching in real time the agitators going all culture war on this becasue its a black guy killing a white family. Even though its trending on Twitter and already national news Andy Ngo is doing what he does best...

Seems its a CTE/mental health.opiod between doctor and patient issue but the left already "all guns are bad" and the right is already going "where is the outrage????"

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

This sucks. Im literally watching in real time the agitators going all culture war on this becasue its a black guy killing a white family. Even though its trending on Twitter and already national news Andy Ngo is doing what he does best...

You can't ignore the fact that the left has politicized race also. Now every massacre each side waits to see what race it is to declare it white supremacy or other nuttiness. It is disgusting that identity politics enter into these situations.

The Colorado massacre people instantly blamed a white person and when proven wrong the radical left double down. It is sick.

I am truly sorry that this happened. He seems like an amazing individual.

 

[NorthDakota]

That's too bad. Crazy to see what people with pill problems are willing to do to get more.

As for culture war stuff, its bad but if it was the inverse, a white pillbilly killing a black doctor and his family....I suspect we all know how that would be received by a certain group who spent a lot of time outside last summer.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Just found out the the father of the two kids actually worked for my company but left prior to me joining. Crazy.... Sorry yall I knew the doctors kids, my mom did their travel, my family friends live virtually next door. I dont have an outlet for this. Apologies.

 

[stpeteirish]

Terrible Cacky, so sorry your community is going through this.

These type of stories are becoming more and more frequent it seems with past players. The NFL knows they have a massive problem on their hands and it seems they're just going through the motions to make it seem like they are remedying it.

well it "seems like" they are going thru the motions because they are. They aren't going to kill the golden goose, someone else is going to have to do it.

 

[IrishLax]

Legitimately insane. They have no motive?

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Legitimately insane. They have no motive?

Other than the speculation I provided above that s all I have gathered.

 

[Luckylucci]

Cack, very sorry to hear of this news. Thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, their families, and your community.

 

[Trait Expectations]

I'm sorry Cack. This is an awful thing. Why would someone need to inflict violence on a family before taking their own life?

 

[Blazers46]

I'm sorry Cack. This is an awful thing. Why would someone need to inflict violence on a family before taking their own life?

Addiction is a horrible thing... assuming that was the issue.

 

[notredomer23]

Addiction is a horrible thing... assuming that was the issue.

Addiction mixed with CTE

 

[NDohio]

Just found out the the father of the two kids actually worked for my company but left prior to me joining. Crazy.... Sorry yall I knew the doctors kids, my mom did their travel, my family friends live virtually next door. I dont have an outlet for this. Apologies.

Sorry this has happened to people you care about. This whole area(York County) is pretty much in shock over this. It is obvious the Leslie family means a lot to this community. Very sad situation.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Update to Phillip Adams story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-nfl-player-phillip-adams-cte-time-south-carolina-rampage-killed-rcna8593

Former NFL player Phillip Adams had stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE,when he is alleged to have gunned down six people before taking his own life in April in South Carolina, officials announced Tuesday.

Dr. Ann McKee of Boston University, who conducted the examination on Adams' brain tissue, said in a news conference Tuesday that Adams' CTE was “unusually severe in both frontal lobes" and may have contributed to his “behavioral abnormalities.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...e-time-south-carolina-rampage-killed-rcna8593

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...e-time-south-carolina-rampage-killed-rcna8593

Dr. Ann McKee, director of the C.T.E. Center at Boston University, said an examination of Adams’s brain showed significantly dense lesions in both frontal lobes, an abnormally severe diagnosis for a person in his 30s that most nearly resembled that of Aaron Hernandez, a former New England Patriots tight end who was 27 years old when he died by suicide after being convicted of a 2013 murder.

The violent rampage by Adams transformed an early spring day into a nightmare that shocked the community in Rock Hill, S.C., a city of 65,000 bonded through football, having produced so many skillful players it is nicknamed Football City U.S.A.