CHARLOTTE (Court TV) — Just minutes after she was shot, a mortally wounded Cherica Adams told police that her "boyfriend" was the culprit, a prosecution witness in NFL player Rae Carruth's capital murder trial testified Tuesday morning.

The witness, Farrell Blalock, watched as police and medics worked on Adams, whose car had ended up on his front lawn. Blalock testified that he heard the victim speak clearly to officers as they converged on her bullet-ridden BMW.

"As soon as the policeman opened the door, the lady inside, she said 'I'm pregnant, and I've been shot,'" Blalock said. "The policeman asked her who did it, and she said, 'My husband, I mean, my boyfriend.'"

Carruth is accused of masterminding the murder of Adams, a 24-year-old real estate agent and sometime model who was seven months pregnant with his child. Prosecutors claim Carruth did not want to pay child support and hired hitmen to ambush her car while he drove in front of her on a Charlotte highway just after midnigt on Nov. 16, 1999. Adams delivered a healthy baby boy, Chancellor, but then lapsed into a coma and died a month later.

On this second day of trial, prosecutors kept the focus on Adams' dying words. During his testimony, Blalock recalled Adams' identifying the vehicle of her "boyfriend" as a white Expedition — the type of SUV Carruth drove — but he did not say that he heard Carruth's name. A paramedic testified Monday that Adams identified Carruth by name as her attacker.

At the time of the shooting Blalock was sitting in his den reading the Bible when he heard several shots. After twice calling 911 and looking outside to see what the commotion was, Blalock walked out to the car just as paramedics and police arrived. Blalock said that he could not hear everything Adams was saying and that he was focused on praying for her survival as medics moved her toward the ambulance.

"I had already started praying that God would intervene and wasn't much looking at her when they took her out of the car," Blalock said.

This morning's session also included more testimony from Traci Renee Willard, an intensive care nurse who began testifying Monday about three pages of notes Adams scribbled the morning after the shooting.

Read the notes

Willard testified Monday that Adams wrote that Carruth "was driving in front of me and stopped in the road and a car pulled up beside me and he blocked the front and never came back."

On Tuesday, she read two more pages of notes in which Adams recounted events leading up to the shooting. On that Monday evening, Adams and Carruth were headed to a 9:45 p.m. showing of The Bone Collector—a film about a police hunt for a killer.

"Before we left his house, he called someone and said we were leaving now," Willard said, reading Adams' note aloud. Willard testified that when a homicide investigator who was also in the hospital room asked Adams if Carruth had told her who he called she wrote "Hannibal Navies," a Carolina Panther teammate who the couple later ran into at the movie theater.

On cross examination, Willard admitted that before she conversed with Adams she had been briefed by another nurse about the circumstances of Adams' shooting and knew that Carruth was the main suspect.

Defense attorney David Rudolf suggested that Adams' was too heavily medicated to know what she was writing. He also attempted to point out that some of Adams' notes were at odds with what she told her mother.

The nurse said Adams seemed alert and added, "There's no way I can tell you what Cherica was thinking other than that I read it back to her, verified it."

Willard said a handful of relatives and friends came into the room as Adams was writing. Rudolf suggested that, with many people asking questions, it was impossible to tell which question Adams' notes answered.

But Willard said she only recalled the family asking one question. Rudolf did not ask what that question was, and prosecutor David Graham pounced on it during redirect.

Willard said that, in response to one of the notes, a cousin, Modrey Floyd, asked Adams, "You think Rae had something to do with it?"

Graham said he wanted Willard to describe Adams' response, but after a side bar conference with Judge Charles Lamm, he declined to question the nurse further.

Adams' father was scheduled to take the stand Tuesday afternoon.