'Real Sports' meets son Rae Carruth left for dead (VIDEO)
It's been 13 years since former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth committed one of the most appalling crimes in NFL history.
On November 16, 1999, the then 25-year-old athlete arranged the shooting of Cherica Adams, a Charlotte real estate agent who was eight months pregnant with his child. Adams fell into a coma after her admission to a local hospital and died a month later, but not before giving birth to a son who was born with cerebral palsy due to the shooting.
This month's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, which premieres Tuesday night on HBO, catches up with 13-year-old Chancellor Adams, as well as the grandmother who is raising him.
The teenager, whose story was detailed in a lengthy Sports Illustrated profile in September, tries to live as normal a life as he can and even won a gold medal in the 30-meter dash of a local Special Olympics competition in his motorized wheelchair. Carruth, who received a sentence of 18 to 24 years for the crime, is scheduled to be released from jail in October 2018, when his son will be 18 years old.