Rae Carruth the NFL star who hired a hitman to kill his pregnant girlfriend ,was released from prison Monday morning, 19 years after the deadly incident, TMZ reports.
Rae was a talented football player with the Carolina Panthers .But, he threw it all away in Nov. 1999 when he conspired with a gunman to murder 24-year-old Cherica Adams, who was 8 months pregnant with his child.He didn’t want to pay child support.
Officials say Carruth and Adams got in separate cars after a movie date and once they got on the road, he blocked her vehicle so the gunman could have a clean shot.
Adams was hit 4 times but managed to call 911 , and emergency personnel were able to perform an emergency C-section and save the baby. Cherica died 4 weeks later.
The child, Chancellor Lee Adams, was born with severe cerebral palsy due to trauma from the shooting. He’s been raised by Cherica’s mother, Saundra, ever since.
Carruth was ultimately convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, attempting to destroy an unborn child and discharging a firearm into occupied property.
He was sentenced to 18 to 24 years in prison.
Carruth — now 44 years old — told WBTV in a recent interview he’s “excited” to get out of prison but nervous about how he’ll be received by the public, acknowledging there is “so much hate and negativity toward me.”
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