Alonzo Adams sat in the driver's seat of his vehicle, a local news camera in his face. He was trying to make some kind of sense of it all, trying to explain his son and his actions. He looked exhausted, emotional, overwhelmed — some kind of nightmarish combination of parental grief and regret.
His son, Phillip, a former journeyman NFL player, had killed five people the night before, including two children, before taking his own life.
This was horrific. This was hell coming to Rock Hill, the small South Carolina city just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina.