Remember Rae Carruth, the Carolina Panthers football player who hired a hitman to murder a woman he got pregnant? The incident happened in 1999. Cherica Adams, a real estate agent Carruth had been casually seeing was shot 4 times while 8 months pregnant with she and Carruth’s son, Chancellor. Cherica died, Chancellor was delivered via c-section, yet suffered permanent brain damage due to being without oxygen for 70 minutes. Doctors said he would never work.
Now the baby Rae Carruth tried to kill is 16 years old and ironically he’s a huge Panthers fan.
“Chancellor is not just surviving. He is thriving,” says Chancellor’s grandmother, Saundra Adams. “He’s able to feed himself some. He’s able to dress himself with minimal assistance. And the biggest thing is he’s able to walk.”
Chancellor’s grandmother would like him to meet his father who’s currently working a prison barber making a dollar a day. A far cry from the millions he made in the NFL.
“The main reason I want Rae and Chancellor to one day have a relationship is because (Chancellor) is his son,” Adams says. “And that’s why I chose early on that I would forgive Rae. Because I don’t feel like I can offer unconditional love to Chancellor if I don’t forgive Rae. That’s his father. It’s a part of him. Chancellor wouldn’t be who he is without Rae. I want them to bond, or at least to meet again.
“Right now, Rae is still in denial about his part in Cherica’s murder. Not that Chancellor would change that. But if anybody were to ever touch Rae’s heart, to make him want to be truthful, I think it would be Chancellor.”
Rae 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. He is scheduled for release October 22, 2018.
