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Receiver appointed in Carruth case
Posted: Monday February 14, 2000 04:00 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A judge named a receiver Monday to size up former NFL player Rae Carruth's assets to determine how much child support he should pay for his infant son while awaiting trial for the murder of the boy's mother. With Carruth and his mother, Theodry Carruth, in the courtroom, Mecklenburg County District Judge Yvonne Mims Evans appointed as receiver Elizabeth Hodges, due to make a report to Evans by next Wednesday. Adams' mother, Saundra Adams, now has temporary custody of the boy, Chancellor Adams, and is seeking permanent custody. In the meantime, Carruth is paying $3,000 a month in child support. His estimated $480,000 in assets remain frozen pending the outcome of the custody case. His lawyers want the money freed so he can pay legal fees. Hodges is expected to review Carruth's 1999 tax return, put his Charlotte home up for sale and liquidate his 401(k) retirement plan. "He [Carruth] wants to sell his house and liquidate his assets," Carruth's attorney, Kenneth Spaulding, told the judge. "He wants to continue to support his children." Carruth also is paying $3,000 a month in child support for another son, Rae, 5, who lives with his mother in Sacramento, Calif. Carruth, 26, and three other men are charged with first-degree murder in the drive-by shooting of Adams, 24, in her car Nov. 16. Hours later, she gave birth to Chancellor, who was 10 weeks premature. Adams died Dec. 14. A hearing is scheduled Tuesday to discuss plans by prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Carruth and his co-defendants. Carruth, a 1997 first-round draft pick from the University of Colorado, signed a four-year, $3.7 million contract and received a $1.3 million signing bonus. He was earning $38,382 a game until the Panthers waived him in December after he was charged. Spaulding also asked Evans on Monday to approve a request by Carruth's mother, Theodry Carruth, to visit her grandson so she can give him toys, pajamas and other presents from a baby shower she held in California. "We've got a big bundle of love and support from Sacramento," she said after the hearing. "Right now, all we've been able to send him is our prayers." Evans turned to Billie Ellerbe, Saundra Adams' attorney, and said, "There will be a visit this week." "Yes, ma'am," he responded. But as the two grandmothers left the courtroom, Theodry Carruth was unable to arrange a visitation site with Saundra Adams, who was rushing down the hallway with family members. "You could bring him over to the house," Theodry Carruth said as Saundra Adams walked away.
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