TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jul 20, 2026

The mother of an Ole Miss football player who was shot and killed at a party in Cordova last year has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, marking the second such lawsuit filed in recent days. According to the Daily Memphian, Chantrel Bernhart filed the suit Thursday in Shelby County Circuit Court, two days after the player’s father filed a similar claim. Corey Adams was attending a for-profit pool party in Memphis in 2025 when as many as 40 gunshots were fired. Five people, including Adams, were wounded in the shooting, which remains unsolved. Details of Bernhart’s lawsuit were not immediately available, but the suit names Calvin Wooten, the former owner of the Fern Glade Cove home, as a defendant. In a separate lawsuit, Adams' father is seeking at least $1 million in damages, plus punitive damages. That one names Wooten, along with his wife and son — who organized the party — as defendants.