Rae Carruth

Rae Carruth is a former American Football player (wide receiver) for the Carolina Panthers who was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Cherica Adams. Carruth, a first-round draft pick of the Panthers out of Colorado, is serving a sentence of at least 18 years and 11 months at Nash Correctional Institution, about 55 miles (90 km) northeast of Raleigh. Adams was eight months pregnant with Carruth's baby when she was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on November 16, 1999, in south Charlotte. Doctors saved her son, Chancellor, in an emergency Caesarean. But Adams, shot four times, died a month later. Born prematurely and in distress, Chancellor has cerebral palsy.