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On an afternoon for healing, a Panthers victory

The Carolina Panthers took a step toward healing the darkest chapter in the team’s history Sunday, as owner David Tepper met on the field with Saundra and Chancellor Lee Adams.

Saundra Adams called the gesture “huge” by Tepper and said afterward that she and her disabled grandson were having an “awesome afternoon” during Carolina’s 36-21 victory over Baltimore at Bank of America Stadium.

The Adamses are the people who were left behind when Cherica Adams was murdered in 1999.

At the time, Cherica Adams was the pregnant girlfriend of Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth, a former No.