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2001-01-17
Today, as part of my perpetual effort to perform public service, I present a transcription of the speech with which Van Brett Watkins, �confessed trigger man in the drive-by shooting of Cherica Adams, pregnant girlfriend of former NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth,� concluded his testimony before the jury in a Charlotte, North Carolina courtroom.
�I didn�t need a gun. Okay? For me to kill somebody, I don�t need a gun. Can�t you look and see? I�m two hundred and eight-six pounds. Okay? I would rip you like a rag doll. Okay?"
(Defense attorney David Rudolph): Is that what you were going to do to Cherica?
�I could of. But I didn�t. Okay, I could have killed her, the baby, okay, that wasn�t my beef. I didn�t kill my wife with the meat cleaver�I threatened her. Okay? I didn�t hit Bridget with the crowbar�I threatened her. I was a dog barking. I didn�t do nothing. I ran. After my wife did that to me I left New York, packed up, took my tools and said, �I�m a good looking man I�ll be able to get another woman,� left, went to Atlanta, was in the strip club with hundreds of girls�hundreds�when I had a problem with a girl I was dealing with in Atlanta, packed up, went to Charlotte, met Bridget, when I had a problem with Bridget I packed up, went back to Atlanta. I ran. This is what I tried to encourage the young man to do. I told him not to do it, for six months I avoided him, I didn�t go ahead and do it, I couldn�t do it. He forced me to do it. He threatened me and the ones I loved. And it�s still not over.
�So feel it. Feel the truth. Okay? I come from the city where you can feel it, you can tell when someone�s selling you shit and when somebody�s telling the truth. Feel it! Or your city is doomed. It�ll be like New York and Atlanta, within ten years. Remember what I said.
�He is representing a person who killed�had his baby�s momma and baby contracted out to kill�and all the time I�m looking at my girl and baby. How did you think I felt? I�m still human. Even though I have a LONG criminal history�I did it all�but I�m still human.
�God forbid.�