An Ex-NFL Player set up his pregnant girlfriend, and had her killed!

Adams: “I’ve been shot,

Adams: “I’m 8 months pregnant!”

911 Operator: “How’d this happen?”

Adams: I followed my baby's daddy, Rae Carruth, the Football Player.

911 Operator: “Where is he?”

Adams: “He was in the car in front of me and slowed down, and someone pulled up beside me and did this.”

911 Operator: “Then where did he go?”

Adams: “He just left I think he did it. I do not know what to think.”

Cherica Adam, the mother of ex-football player Rae Carruth Wide, a receiver for The Carolina Panthers in 1997, was being rushed to the hospital after being hit with five bullets. She bled considerably and immediately had to have a C-section due to her injuries. Ms. Adams delivered a baby boy by the name of Chancellor Lee. Ms. Adam shortly after slipped into a coma. Due to the vicious attack on Ms. Adams, her son battles Cerebral Palsy and has indefinite brain damage.

Rae Carruth was born in Sacramento, California, on January 20th, 1974. Carruth played football at Valley High School and, in his senior year, accepted a football scholarship at The University of Colorado. He led fourteen games during his rookie season and totaled 545 yards. Carruth was labeled the all-rookie team Wild Receiver.

In 1998, Carruth broke his right foot at his first game. Mr. Carruth had a screw inserted into his damaged bone in his foot. He was off the field for 6 weeks under the doctor's orders. The newcomer in 1999 made two hundred yards and fourteen catches within his first six games.

During Mr. Carruth's senior year at a high school football game, he met Michelle Wright. Ms. Wright was a sophomore and was sixteen years old. According to the Court TV trial testimony video interview, Ms. Wright verbalized they were together, and she became pregnant with Mr. Carruth’s son, Ray Samual. Mr. Carruth left Sacramento and went off to college during her pregnancy. Ray Samual, also known as Ray-Ray, was born on August 14th, 1994. Over the next two years, Ms. Wright and Carruth had an on-and-off relationship. Mr. Carruth had found himself engaging in another relationship with another woman, if not multiple.

Amber Turner connected with Mr. Carruth in Colorado in 1996. They became involved quickly, and Ms. Turner moved in with Rae in the summer of ‘ninety-seven as soon as The Carolina Panthers drafted him. Once Mr. Carruth's first football season ended, he and Ms. Turner returned to Colorado. In the spring of 1998, he returned to college and left Ms. Turner behind. An abbreviated time later, she discovered she was with Mr. Carruth's child. Amber expressed the findings of being pregnant with Mr. Carruth's child, and he instantly became enraged with her. As reported by an ESPN article, Ms. Turner testified during the trial that Mr. Carruth went on to say, “I am not going to have no more kids with someone I wasn’t going to be with.” “Don’t make me send somebody out there to kill you,” “You know I will do it. Turner further states she demanded she have an abortion, so she granted his desire.

Cherica Adam, a.k.a. Cookie, was born June 30th, 1975, in Charlotta, North Carolina. During a news interview, Ms. Adams was described as brilliant, flawless(effortlessly), and a great person by her sister, JaJuan Monnie. In June 1998, Ms. Adams met Mr. Carruth at a pool Party. The relationship was exclusive in the sense of commitment, yet they hooked up multiple times with no strings attached. Mr. Carruth had bounced women to women speedily, not only that, along with impregnating them.

Ms. Adams did not settle for a bottom-shelf lifestyle. No, she was self-sufficient and had a strong, ambitious, beautiful spirit. She left college to work as a Real Estate Agent and an Entertainer at a club. Mr. Carruth is still intimate with Ms. Adams and frequently comes to her job. Shortly after, she became pregnant with Mr. Carruth's son, Chancellor Lee Adams.

Carruth did not want another child. He immediately thought about having to pay child support. Mr. Carruth wanted Ms. Adams to have an abortion. Ms. Adams was firm about having their son and resumed caring for herself and preparing to become a mother. Exasperated about Ms. Adams's pregnancy, he contemplated having Ms. Adams and his son harmed to terminate her pregnancy. He was bugging out over having to pay child support since, during this time, he was paying thousands and thousands of dollars to Ms. Wright, who has his first-born son.

Rae Carruth met a felon by the name of Van Brett Watkins, who would be the primary piece in committing this atrocious crime toward Ms. Adams and their unborn son. Mr. Watkins was secure at the exact very club she entertained for. A mutual friend introduced him and Carruth. Carruth linked up with Mr. Watkin and asked how much it would take to beat up Ms. Adam to make her lose their baby. Watkins follows up by saying, “I do not beat up on people; I kill them.

Cherica Adam was growing closer to her due date, and Carruth panicked. Carruth and Watkin concede to annihilating Adam and the baby. Not only did Carruth hire Watkins to inflict death on Adam and the baby but collected two drug dealers to be involved by the names of Michael Kennedy and Stanley Abraham. Carruth formulated with all three men. Carruth insisted on having an unnoticeable car. So, Kennedy agreed to use his Nissan Maxima. Carruth would create a date of horror for Ms. Adam and lure her to her death.

Carruth invited Adam to see The Bone Collector at 9:45 PM on November 16th, 2023, and Ms. Adams accepted his offer. The mystery/thriller movie lasted for one hour and fifty-eight minutes. Once the movie ended, Ms. Adam followed Carruth down Rae Road in Charlotta, North Carolina. They each arrived in separate vehicles. Mr. Carruth, a white SUV, and Ms. Adam, a black BMW. Behind Ms. Adam was Kenndy driving with Abraham in the passenger and Mr. Watkins in the back. Carruth stopped and blocked Adam's way with his SUV a moment later. Mr. Kenndy pulled alongside Ms. Adams's BMW, and Mr. Watkins rolled his window down and fired five shots at Ms. Adams's window with a thirty-eight revolver. Carruth then proceeded down Rae Road.

Ms. Adam was struck four times on her back and once in her neck. She laid up at Carolina Medical Center in a coma, fighting for her life. Before Adam slipped into a coma, she got Nurse Traci Willard's attention by mimicking as if she were writing. Ms. Adam had breathing tubes in her throat, and Nurse Willard gave her a clipboard. Ms. Adam wrote the statement that Nurse Willard read during the trial, saying, “Before we left his house, he called someone and said we are leaving now. Carruth went to speak with officials and shortly posted a bond for $3 million. Mr. Carruth was instructed not to leave Mecklenburg County and to admit himself to the sheriff’s if Chancellor Lee or Ms. Adams died.

Time went on, and Ms. Adams's condition seriously worsened. On December 14th, 1999, Adams died at 12:43 due to organ failure. Shortly after, a warrant was issued for Rae Carruth's capture. Instead of surrendering to authorities, Carruth fled North Carolina. Another female Carruth knew by the name Wendy Lovette Cole snatched Carruth up and headed to Wildersville, Tennessee, Best Western Hotel. Carruth's mother told U.S Marshalls where to locate him. FBI Agent Mark Post and his crew swiftly went to Best Western. They made it to the room, but Carruth was not there. Ms. Cole was, and she hinted to Agent Post, where Mr. Carruth was hiding by staring at the keys twice. They then capture Carruth curled up in the truck of her Toyota car. Carruth did not put up a fight; Agent Post popped the truck, and Mr. Carruth stuck his hands out and arrested Mr. Carruth on December 15th, 1999, and taken into custody.

Watkins, Abraham, Kennedy, and Carruth were all facing the following charges: First-degree murder, Conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. At the beginning of the year 2000, the trial began. Carruth's Defensive Attorney, David Rudolf, argued that Carruth did not plot to harm Adams and their unborn child. Attorney David declares Watkins did it because Carruth backed out of funding a drug deal. Leading prosecutor Gentry Caudill maintains that Carruth hired Mr. Watkins to afflict deadly harm to Ms. Adams and their unborn son to avoid having to pay child support to two different women. Adam's 911 call was the most valuable piece in this case.

Kenndey was the getaway driver involved in this sickening crime. He testified in a court appearance that he purchased a gun from a friend the night before Watkins gunned down Ms. Adams. Kenndey did not accept a plea deal, and neither did Carruth. When it was time for Carruth to take the stand, he declined. Other parties spoke of their relationship with Mr. Carruth, such as his first child’s mother, Michelle Wright, Amber Turner, and his high school coach. Carruth's high school basketball coach painted a vastly different illustration of Mr. Carruth and found it unbelievable to grasp him committing such an immoral act.

Van Brett Watkins, on the other hand, ’s testimony was insensitive, impulsive, and at times threatening to the victims and authorities. He verbalized that he purposely manipulated the system by going into a psychiatric hospital to get a lesser sentence. During the trial, while being questioned, Watkins declares, “I do not need a gun. I am 286 pounds and could rip Attorney Rudolf with his bare hands.” Watkins remarked. Watkin ended up accepting a plea deal and later went on to say, “I fired one shot than four more into Ms. Adam's BMW driver window.” He also angrily stated, “I hope the bi#% die.” He tried reasoning to the court that he was referring to Mr. Carruth. Watkin went on claiming the bi#% made me do it.”

With the overwhelming drafting evidence on January 19th, 2001, the case came to a final disposition. Mr. Carruth was exonerated of first-degree murder but was sentenced to eighteen to twenty-four years in prison. Mr. Carruth was guilty of Conspiracy to commit murder, using an instrument with intent to destroy an unborn child, and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. Van Brett Watkins received a sentence of 40 years and five months minimum and 50 years maximum for shooting and killing Ms. Adams. Michael Kennedy got a ten-year sentence in Raleigh Prison for the role he participated in; nonetheless, Stanley Abraham's ruling was 90 days for being a Caperon.