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Rae Carruth released from prison 17 years after conviction in murder of son's mother
Jason Owens,Yahoo Sports•October 22, 2018
In 2001, Rae Carruth went to prison, convicted in the death of his pregnant girlfriend Cherica Adams.
Monday he walked free, having completed his sentence. At 8:02 a.m. ET, Carruth, the former Carolina Panthers wide receiver, walked out of Sampson Correctional Institution, got in a white Chevy Tahoe and drove away without speaking to an assembly of reporters outside the facility.
“I’m excited about just being out of here. I’m nervous just about how I’ll be received by the public,” Carruth said in a phone interview with WSOC-TV on Sunday. “I still have to work. I still have to live. I have to exist out there and it just seems like there is so much hate and negativity toward me. I’m actually somewhat frightened.”
Whether he will seek a relationship with his son, who was born with brain damage after being removed from his dying mother’s womb, is unclear.
Carruth’s son born with cerebral palsy
Chancellor Lee Adams, now 18, was born with cerebral palsy after Carruth’s accomplices shot his 24-year-old mother in her BMW while she was eight months pregnant in Charlotte, North Carolina. He requires a caregiver.
Adams said in a Nov. 16, 1999, 911 call that Carruth, then a third-year wide receiver with the Carolina Panthers, stopped his car in front of her as she was following him from a movie date. That’s when three accomplices of Carruth’s pulled up and shot her through the driver’s side window of her car, according to her account.
Adams survived long enough to have a C-section to save her son, but died four weeks later from her injuries. She was 24.
Carruth jumped bail, hid trunk of a car
Carruth was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder after the shooting. When Adams died, he jumped bail and fled. FBI agents found him hiding in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a Tennessee Best Western motel.
Carruth was eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied dwelling and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. He was sentenced to 18-24 years in prison. He escaped a first-degree murder conviction, which could have carried the death penalty.
Now 44, Carruth is a free man.
Jason Owens,Yahoo Sports•October 22, 2018
In 2001, Rae Carruth went to prison, convicted in the death of his pregnant girlfriend Cherica Adams.
Monday he walked free, having completed his sentence. At 8:02 a.m. ET, Carruth, the former Carolina Panthers wide receiver, walked out of Sampson Correctional Institution, got in a white Chevy Tahoe and drove away without speaking to an assembly of reporters outside the facility.
“I’m excited about just being out of here. I’m nervous just about how I’ll be received by the public,” Carruth said in a phone interview with WSOC-TV on Sunday. “I still have to work. I still have to live. I have to exist out there and it just seems like there is so much hate and negativity toward me. I’m actually somewhat frightened.”
Whether he will seek a relationship with his son, who was born with brain damage after being removed from his dying mother’s womb, is unclear.
Carruth’s son born with cerebral palsy
Chancellor Lee Adams, now 18, was born with cerebral palsy after Carruth’s accomplices shot his 24-year-old mother in her BMW while she was eight months pregnant in Charlotte, North Carolina. He requires a caregiver.
Adams said in a Nov. 16, 1999, 911 call that Carruth, then a third-year wide receiver with the Carolina Panthers, stopped his car in front of her as she was following him from a movie date. That’s when three accomplices of Carruth’s pulled up and shot her through the driver’s side window of her car, according to her account.
Adams survived long enough to have a C-section to save her son, but died four weeks later from her injuries. She was 24.
Carruth jumped bail, hid trunk of a car
Carruth was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder after the shooting. When Adams died, he jumped bail and fled. FBI agents found him hiding in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a Tennessee Best Western motel.
Carruth was eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied dwelling and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. He was sentenced to 18-24 years in prison. He escaped a first-degree murder conviction, which could have carried the death penalty.
Now 44, Carruth is a free man.
