CLINTON, NC – Former Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth made her first appearance as a free man in nearly 19 years. He left prison Sampson after serving his prison sentence for planning the death of his pregnant girlfriend.

Carruth, 44, wore a black cap and a black jacket while he was coming out of the institution with minimal security. He rode in a Chevrolet Tahoe without speaking to more than 20 media members gathered nearby. The white SUV tires screamed as they left.

Prison officials did not reveal who had met Carruth and took him out of the institution.

In 2001, Carruth was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. He had used an instrument to destroy an unborn child and had unloaded a firearm from an occupied property during the shootings that occurred near Carruth's home on November 16, 1999, and which had resulted in the death of Cherica Adams. .

Chancellor Lee Adams, Carruth's son whose murderer said Carruth wanted death, would not have to pay child support, was born premature and has cerebral palsy.

Carruth was acquitted of the most serious charge, first degree murder, at trial. Although no longer incarcerated, Carruth will serve a nine-month probation sentence in conjunction with his convictions.

Carruth remained largely his mother because he served in various penitentiaries in North Carolina over the past two decades, outside of an interview with WBTV in February.

"I'm sorry for losing her daughter," Carruth told the Charlotte-based television channel. "I'm sorry for my son's disability, I feel responsible for everything that happened, and I just want her to know that I'm sorry for everything."

In the interview, Carruth stated that he would seek to recover "the responsibility" of having elevated Chancellor Lee Adams after his release, although he wrote to The Charlotte Observer that 39, he "would no longer pursue a relationship with the Chancellor" or Saundra Adams, the mother of Cherica. who raised the chancellor.

"I promise to leave them, which, in my opinion, is in everyone's interest," wrote Carruth.

Carruth escaped after the shooting before his capture in December 1999 in Tennessee, while authorities found him hiding in the trunk of an outside car. hotel.

Carruth, a native of Sacramento, California, was selected in the first round by the Panthers in 1997 after playing college at the University of Colorado. He was a first All-American team in 1996.

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