Chancellor Lee Adams, former football player Rae Carruth's son, is expected to graduate from high school on June 5. Adams was nearly killed after Carruth hired a hitman to carry out the shooting of the high school graduate's mom while she was pregnant.  Undeterred from life’s challenges, Adams, 21, will walk across the stage with his peers and receive his diploma from Vance High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, The Charlotte Observer reported . On Nov. 16, 1999, the 21-year-old's mother, Cherica Adams, was shot four times during a drive-by shooting in Charlotte while pregnant with Chancellor. Cherica, who was 24 at the time, died the night of the shooting, but it was her 911 call that wound up saving Chancellor's life.