Ole Miss freshman football player Corey Adams was killed in a shooting in Tennessee, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office announced Sunday. Law enforcement officials found Adams with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle at an intersection in Cordova on the outskirts of Memphis late Saturday, the sheriff's office said in a statement.

Adams, a top player on the Karr football team that won a state championship last season, was found by deputies in a vehicle outside a residence in Cordova, Tennessee. The deputies attempted “life-saving measures,” the release said, and he was pronounced dead on the scene.

A tribute remembered the Ole Miss defensive end as "a friend, brother, son, student, and all-around great young man"