Rae Carruth To Be Greeted Post Release By Son He Tried To Murder

In 1999, Rae Carruth, then WR for the Carolina Panthers, hired someone to shoot  Cherica Adams, a real estate agent and a girl he was casually seeing. Cherica was 8 months pregnant with Carruth’s child which she refused to abort. Doctors were able to deliver the baby via c-section while Cherica was in a coma, but she did not make it. Cherica’s son, Chancellor Lee Adams,  lived but suffered permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy due to being without oxygen for 70 minutes before he was born.

Carruth fled and was found in Tennessee hiding in a trunk with $3,900 cash, bottles of his urine, extra clothes, candy bars, and a cell phone. In 2001, Carruth was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. He was sentenced to 18 to 24 years in prison. Carruth now words as a prison barber making a dollar per day at a minimum-security prison in Columbia, NC. His projected release date is October 22, 2018.

Waiting for him as soon as the gates open will be Carruth’s son, Chancellor, whom he’s never met. He will be 19 years old. He still suffers the affects of what Carruth did to him and still attends physical therapy.

Saundra Adams, Chancellor’s grandmother, has since forgiven Rae Carruth for having her only child murdered. “I’m hoping that I’ll be able to make contact with Rae, maybe by next year,” Adams says about his release, “so it won’t be a total surprise to him. I’m not trying to just corner him. I want him to know that we want to be there.”