Rae Carruth, the former Carolina Panthers receiver who was convicted of conspiring to kill his pregnant girlfriend, was released from prison after 18 years and 11 months on Monday.
Mr. Carruth, now 44, was sentenced to 18 to 24 years in prison in 2001 after being convicted of offering $5,000 to another man to kill his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica L. Adams in North Carolina in 1999. Ms. Adams was shot and killed in a drive-by attack by the man, Van Brett Watkins.
Mr. Carruth was on hand, the police said, and used his car to block Miss Adams’s car and facilitate the shooting.