Former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth walked out of prison and back into the free world Monday.
At 8:02 a.m. on a cold and clear October morning, Carruth was released from the minimum-custody facility at Sampson Correctional Institution, about 190 miles east of Charlotte. He will no longer be primarily identified as offender number 0712822 in the North Carolina prison system. He is now Rae Wiggins, also known as Rae Carruth, also known as a free man.
About 10 TV trucks and a couple of dozen members of the media awaited Carruth’s release in a parking lot that bordered the prison.