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The boy Rae Carruth couldn’t kill is now a young man graduating from NC high school
Channel 3 WEBT, Charlotte Observer, via Facebook ^ | 05/26/21 | Scott Fowler

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: carruth; education; nfl; righttolife
This was "offered" to me on FB. I remember this terrible crime, but of course had forgotten all about it. Here's a well written follow up, I'm kind of amazed to see this in the MSM, even more amazed at the headline.

Good luck to this young man as he graduates High School!

1 posted on 05/27/2021 11:42:26 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307

An article on the young man from 2012, before Sports Illustrated went completely woke.


2 posted on 05/28/2021 3:11:33 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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whoops forgo the link

https://vault.si.com/vault/2012/09/17/the-boy-they-couldnt-kill


3 posted on 05/28/2021 3:12:07 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

They’d never run something like that now. I was astonished to see this one!


4 posted on 05/28/2021 4:26:58 AM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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What an amazing kid. Congrats, Mr. Adams...


5 posted on 05/28/2021 4:33:01 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Rest In PEACE, Rush H. Limbaugh III. You are missed already...)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Feel good story of the day, huh?


6 posted on 05/28/2021 6:24:12 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: jocon307

Yes. Sports Illustrated has changed...


7 posted on 05/30/2021 1:29:56 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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