As police searched the Lesslies’ home, which is up a driveway from an arched stone gate and not visible from the road, they found Dr. Lesslie, his wife and their two grandchildren together in a room in the back of the home. All were dead, Tolson said.
Tolson said there was evidence at the scene that tied Adams to the killings but did not elaborate. He said authorities were able to contact his family and found Adams lived nearby. Some neighbors were evacuated as law enforcers searched for the suspect with police dogs.
Allison Hope, who lives across from the Adams’ modest one-story brick home, about a mile from the Lesslies, said police allowed her to return home around 9 p.m. Wednesday. Moments later, a vehicle pulled into their driveway and law enforcement quickly surrounded the property.
She said law enforcers spent hours negotiating with Adams, using a loudspeaker and sending in a robot to scan the house. She said authorities repeatedly asked Adams to come out and promised to get his disabled mother out safely.
“This is something I can’t grasp yet. I can’t put it all together and I’m trying to, and I witnessed it,” Hope said.
Adams' parents were evacuated from the home as police surrounded the house and attempted to have him surrender. No shots were heard from the home, Tolson said, but police later found Adams dead inside of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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