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Direct Headline: Ex-NFL player Rae Carruth released after nearly 19 years in prison for murder plot
A.J. Perez USA TODAY 10/22/2108
Former Carolina Panthers NFL football player Rae Carruth...exits the Sampson Correctional Institution in Clinton, N.C., on Oct. 22,. Carruth has been released from prison after serving nearly 19 years for conspiring to murder the mother of his unborn child. Carruth, 44, wore a black skull cap and black jacket as he emerged from the minimum-security facility. He got into a Chevy Tahoe without talking to the more than 20 news media members assembled nearby. The tires of the white SUV screeched as he left....
...Carruth was convicted in 2001 for conspiracy to commit murder, using an instrument with intent to destroy an unborn child and discharging a firearm into occupied property in the shooting near Carruth’s Charlotte home on Nov. 16, 1999, that led to the death of Cherica Adams. Chancellor Lee Adams, Carruth's son whom the hitman testified Carruth wanted ( his unborn child) dead so he wouldn’t have to pay child support, was born premature and suffers from cerebral palsy....Carruth was acquitted of the most serious charge, first-degree murder, at trial....
"I think Rae will acclimate pretty easily," Gordon Widenhouse, an attorney who handled Carruth's appeal, told USA TODAY Sports. "He's a very engaging individual. He's intelligent. I think he will find a way to integrate himself back into society...I think it's difficult any time for anyone who has been in prison any significant amount of time, and then they're released and try to find employment, find housing, make friends and try to be accepted within a community. I think Rae has a good attitude. He's taken care of himself while he was in prison. I think and hope he will find a way to make it in the real world.... "
Carruth has remained largely mum as he’s sat in various North Carolina prison facilities over the last nearly two decades, outside an interview with WBTV in February....."I'm apologizing for the loss of her daughter,” Carruth told the Charlotte-based TV station. “I'm apologizing for the impairment of my son. I feel responsible for everything that happened. And I just want her to know that truly I am sorry for everything...."
In the interview, Carruth said he’d seek to gain “responsibility back” for raising Chancellor Lee Adams after his release, although he wrote to The Charlotte Observer he would “no longer be pursuing a relationship with Chancellor” or Saundra Adams, Cherica’s mother who has raised Chancellor....."I promise to leave them be, which I now see is in everyone’s best interest,” Carruth wrote.
Carruth fled after the shooting before his capture in December 1999, in Tennessee as authorities found him hiding in the trunk of a car outside of a hotel. Carruth, a native of Sacramento, California, was drafted in the first round by the Panthers in 1997 after he played collegiately at the University of Colorado. He was a first-team All-American in 1996. Carruth had a turbulent relationship with his first baby mama, Michelle Wright. She gave birth to his son, Raelondo, while the former NFL player was in his sophomore year at Colorado. Reportedly, he was an absent father, and Wright even sued him for child support. Later, the two concluded he would pay $2,700 in child support....
Carruth then got into a relationship with Cherica Adams. Like Wright, she was also was pregnant with his son. Unfortunately, when she was eight months pregnant.. Adams was shot four times. Even though she was severely injured, she called 911 and reported her baby daddy was behind the shooting. She told them (that Carruth) stopped his car in front of hers before she was shot. Soon after the report, she was taken to a hospital where she had an emergency cesarean section to deliver baby Chancellor....Chancellor survived, but he was born with lifelong brain impairment and cerebral palsy. Adams, on the other hand, did not survive her injuries.
After being released from jail, Carruth moved to Pennslyvania with a friend. It is reported that he is working from his home...the former NFL player has not admitted to Adam's murder but confessed to feeling responsible for everything.... (Carruth's son Chancellor) graduated from high school in 2021 and now lives with his grandmother.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-carruth-released-prison-panthers/1725206002/
https://hollywoodmask.com/p/rae-carruth-now.html
Direct Headline: The boy Rae Carruth couldn’t kill is now a young man graduating from NC high school
By Scott Fowler May. 26, 2021
... The boy Rae Carruth once tried to kill has become a young man about to graduate from a Charlotte high school....Chancellor Lee Adams has already tried on his cap and gown to make sure it fits. He has an orange-and-blue shirt and tie to wear underneath the gown and match his school’s colors. He plans to walk across the stage with the other Vance High graduates at 5:30 p.m. June 5 at Charlotte’s Bojangles’ Coliseum, not with the aid of the walker he uses less and less, but instead standing tall...Chancellor Lee is 21 years old. He has permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy owing to the chaotic circumstances of his birth in 1999, when his pregnant mother, Cherica Adams, was shot four times in Charlotte by a hitman hired by Carruth, the former Carolina Panther....
Cherica Adams would eventually die from her injuries that night — her murder trial was nationally televised 20 years ago. But she saved her unborn son’s life with a haunting 12-minute “911” call she made from her car after the drive-by shooting on Nov. 16, 1999....After serving nearly 19 years in N.C. prisons, Carruth was released in October 2018. Upon his release, he moved to Pennsylvania to live with a friend. I tracked down his address a few weeks later, rang his doorbell and eventually obtained the only interview he has given since his release....
...Carruth has never admitted that he orchestrated Cherica Adams’ murder. He wrote to me in an email in 2018: “Do you think it’s possible for a generally good person to get him/herself involved in a situation as heart-wrenchingly horrible as the one I was in, or is it your belief that such a person could only be cut from the worst of molds?”
....Chancellor Lee has actually spent the past six school years at Vance — four in the Exceptional Children’s high school program, then two more in a transitional program aimed at teaching life skills. Although he will always need a live-in caregiver and usually speaks only a word or two at a time, Chancellor Lee has learned how to order his own food at a restaurant and understands the concept behind a credit card....Every day, for years, he and the other young men and women in the EC program at Vance recited a class motto.
"I am somebody. I can reach my goals...I have dreams...Nothing can stop me...I will succeed!"
https://www.wbtv.com/2021/05/26/boy...s-now-young-man-graduating-an-nc-high-school/
A.J. Perez USA TODAY 10/22/2108
Former Carolina Panthers NFL football player Rae Carruth...exits the Sampson Correctional Institution in Clinton, N.C., on Oct. 22,. Carruth has been released from prison after serving nearly 19 years for conspiring to murder the mother of his unborn child. Carruth, 44, wore a black skull cap and black jacket as he emerged from the minimum-security facility. He got into a Chevy Tahoe without talking to the more than 20 news media members assembled nearby. The tires of the white SUV screeched as he left....
...Carruth was convicted in 2001 for conspiracy to commit murder, using an instrument with intent to destroy an unborn child and discharging a firearm into occupied property in the shooting near Carruth’s Charlotte home on Nov. 16, 1999, that led to the death of Cherica Adams. Chancellor Lee Adams, Carruth's son whom the hitman testified Carruth wanted ( his unborn child) dead so he wouldn’t have to pay child support, was born premature and suffers from cerebral palsy....Carruth was acquitted of the most serious charge, first-degree murder, at trial....
"I think Rae will acclimate pretty easily," Gordon Widenhouse, an attorney who handled Carruth's appeal, told USA TODAY Sports. "He's a very engaging individual. He's intelligent. I think he will find a way to integrate himself back into society...I think it's difficult any time for anyone who has been in prison any significant amount of time, and then they're released and try to find employment, find housing, make friends and try to be accepted within a community. I think Rae has a good attitude. He's taken care of himself while he was in prison. I think and hope he will find a way to make it in the real world.... "
Carruth has remained largely mum as he’s sat in various North Carolina prison facilities over the last nearly two decades, outside an interview with WBTV in February....."I'm apologizing for the loss of her daughter,” Carruth told the Charlotte-based TV station. “I'm apologizing for the impairment of my son. I feel responsible for everything that happened. And I just want her to know that truly I am sorry for everything...."
In the interview, Carruth said he’d seek to gain “responsibility back” for raising Chancellor Lee Adams after his release, although he wrote to The Charlotte Observer he would “no longer be pursuing a relationship with Chancellor” or Saundra Adams, Cherica’s mother who has raised Chancellor....."I promise to leave them be, which I now see is in everyone’s best interest,” Carruth wrote.
Carruth fled after the shooting before his capture in December 1999, in Tennessee as authorities found him hiding in the trunk of a car outside of a hotel. Carruth, a native of Sacramento, California, was drafted in the first round by the Panthers in 1997 after he played collegiately at the University of Colorado. He was a first-team All-American in 1996. Carruth had a turbulent relationship with his first baby mama, Michelle Wright. She gave birth to his son, Raelondo, while the former NFL player was in his sophomore year at Colorado. Reportedly, he was an absent father, and Wright even sued him for child support. Later, the two concluded he would pay $2,700 in child support....
Carruth then got into a relationship with Cherica Adams. Like Wright, she was also was pregnant with his son. Unfortunately, when she was eight months pregnant.. Adams was shot four times. Even though she was severely injured, she called 911 and reported her baby daddy was behind the shooting. She told them (that Carruth) stopped his car in front of hers before she was shot. Soon after the report, she was taken to a hospital where she had an emergency cesarean section to deliver baby Chancellor....Chancellor survived, but he was born with lifelong brain impairment and cerebral palsy. Adams, on the other hand, did not survive her injuries.
After being released from jail, Carruth moved to Pennslyvania with a friend. It is reported that he is working from his home...the former NFL player has not admitted to Adam's murder but confessed to feeling responsible for everything.... (Carruth's son Chancellor) graduated from high school in 2021 and now lives with his grandmother.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-carruth-released-prison-panthers/1725206002/
https://hollywoodmask.com/p/rae-carruth-now.html
Direct Headline: The boy Rae Carruth couldn’t kill is now a young man graduating from NC high school
By Scott Fowler May. 26, 2021
... The boy Rae Carruth once tried to kill has become a young man about to graduate from a Charlotte high school....Chancellor Lee Adams has already tried on his cap and gown to make sure it fits. He has an orange-and-blue shirt and tie to wear underneath the gown and match his school’s colors. He plans to walk across the stage with the other Vance High graduates at 5:30 p.m. June 5 at Charlotte’s Bojangles’ Coliseum, not with the aid of the walker he uses less and less, but instead standing tall...Chancellor Lee is 21 years old. He has permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy owing to the chaotic circumstances of his birth in 1999, when his pregnant mother, Cherica Adams, was shot four times in Charlotte by a hitman hired by Carruth, the former Carolina Panther....
Cherica Adams would eventually die from her injuries that night — her murder trial was nationally televised 20 years ago. But she saved her unborn son’s life with a haunting 12-minute “911” call she made from her car after the drive-by shooting on Nov. 16, 1999....After serving nearly 19 years in N.C. prisons, Carruth was released in October 2018. Upon his release, he moved to Pennsylvania to live with a friend. I tracked down his address a few weeks later, rang his doorbell and eventually obtained the only interview he has given since his release....
...Carruth has never admitted that he orchestrated Cherica Adams’ murder. He wrote to me in an email in 2018: “Do you think it’s possible for a generally good person to get him/herself involved in a situation as heart-wrenchingly horrible as the one I was in, or is it your belief that such a person could only be cut from the worst of molds?”
....Chancellor Lee has actually spent the past six school years at Vance — four in the Exceptional Children’s high school program, then two more in a transitional program aimed at teaching life skills. Although he will always need a live-in caregiver and usually speaks only a word or two at a time, Chancellor Lee has learned how to order his own food at a restaurant and understands the concept behind a credit card....Every day, for years, he and the other young men and women in the EC program at Vance recited a class motto.
"I am somebody. I can reach my goals...I have dreams...Nothing can stop me...I will succeed!"
https://www.wbtv.com/2021/05/26/boy...s-now-young-man-graduating-an-nc-high-school/
