Posted on 05/27/2021 11:42:26 PM PDT by jocon307
...The boy Rae Carruth once tried to kill has become a young man about to graduate from a Charlotte high school.
Chancellor Lee Adams has already tried on his cap and gown to make sure it fits. He has an orange-and-blue shirt and tie to wear underneath the gown and match his school’s colors. He plans to walk across the stage with the other Vance High graduates at 5:30 p.m. June 5 at Charlotte’s Bojangles’ Coliseum, not with the aid of the walker he uses less and less, but instead standing tall and holding onto the arm of his favorite high-school teacher....
Chancellor Lee is 21 years old. He has permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy owing to the chaotic circumstances of his birth in 1999, when his pregnant mother, Cherica Adams, was shot four times in Charlotte by a hitman hired by Carruth, the former Carolina Panther.
Cherica Adams would eventually die from her injuries that night... But she saved her unborn son’s life with a haunting 12-minute “911” call she made from her car after the drive-by shooting on Nov. 16, 1999....
(Excerpt) Read more at wbtv.com ...
Good luck to this young man as he graduates High School!
An article on the young man from 2012, before Sports Illustrated went completely woke.
They’d never run something like that now. I was astonished to see this one!
What an amazing kid. Congrats, Mr. Adams...
Feel good story of the day, huh?
Yes. Sports Illustrated has changed...
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