What Carruth had to say in an interview after being in Nash Correctional Institution in Nash County
Carruth starts the interview off by saying:
“I didn't even know her last name until we went to Lamaze class," Carruth said.
And later adds:
"I was not there," Carruth said. "I didn't see the shooting. I didn't hear any shots. I can't testify to anything that happened to Cherica on Rae Road."
Adams died a month after the shooting. Her son, delivered by emergency Caesarean section, suffers from cerebral palsy.
While prosecutors portrayed Adams as Carruth's girlfriend, the inmate disputed that.
"As far as Cherica and I are concerned, we never dated," Carruth said in the interview. "We were never boyfriend and girlfriend. ... We slept together. ... There was no conversation."
Asked why he fled Charlotte after Adams died, Carruth, who was found hiding in the trunk of a car outside a West Tennessee motel, said he felt that everyone was against him.
"Who was going to speak up for me?" he said. "You have the guys that did it lying. Cherica was there and she's gone. The media had already said, 'This is what happened.' What did I have left?"
According to Rudolf, Carruth also said in the interview that he hoped to sit down one day with his brain-damaged son, Chancellor, "and tell him what really happened; ... that he had nothing to do with it."
“I didn't even know her last name until we went to Lamaze class," Carruth said.
And later adds:
"I was not there," Carruth said. "I didn't see the shooting. I didn't hear any shots. I can't testify to anything that happened to Cherica on Rae Road."
Adams died a month after the shooting. Her son, delivered by emergency Caesarean section, suffers from cerebral palsy.
While prosecutors portrayed Adams as Carruth's girlfriend, the inmate disputed that.
"As far as Cherica and I are concerned, we never dated," Carruth said in the interview. "We were never boyfriend and girlfriend. ... We slept together. ... There was no conversation."
Asked why he fled Charlotte after Adams died, Carruth, who was found hiding in the trunk of a car outside a West Tennessee motel, said he felt that everyone was against him.
"Who was going to speak up for me?" he said. "You have the guys that did it lying. Cherica was there and she's gone. The media had already said, 'This is what happened.' What did I have left?"
According to Rudolf, Carruth also said in the interview that he hoped to sit down one day with his brain-damaged son, Chancellor, "and tell him what really happened; ... that he had nothing to do with it."
What happend to him after the trial:
Carruth was sentenced in January to at least 18 years and 11 months and a maximum of 24 years and four months after being convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and using an instrument with the intent to destroy an unborn child. He was acquitted of first-degree murder in the shooting of Adams, who was eight months pregnant.