Charlotte father of quadruplets, who also owned Jamaican restaurant, dies at 35
In February 2025, Carlos Abrahams sat in his Charlotte living room and laughed about the day doctors told him and his wife, Ronjera, that they weren’t expecting three babies after all.
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They were expecting four.
“After that, we were scared every appointment,” he said during a lengthy conversation with The Charlotte Observer in the family’s home. Then he laughed when he added, “It was like, ‘They better not find anymore.’”
Along with his wife Ronjera and their large collection of children, Carlos — the owner of Crav’n Caribbean, a Jamaican restaurant and food truck business in west Charlotte — would come to be known as the father at the center of one of the region’s most extraordinary family stories.
As the family navigated the first year and a half of life as parents of seven, they built a following of more than 1 million across their social-media channels.
Then, last weekend, Ronjera shared devastating news on their channels: Carlos had died.
He was 35.
By all accounts, he was the Abrahams family’s rock: calm, funny and practical, even when confronted with circumstances that would overwhelm most people.
Carlos and Ronjera were already raising three sons when they learned in the summer of 2024 that they were expecting quadruplets — identical twin boys and identical twin girls. The spontaneous pregnancy was so rare that even some medical professionals struggled to explain its odds.
When Ronjera learned there was a fourth baby and broke down in tears, worried about what lay ahead, she remembered looking at her husband and asking a simple question.
“What we gonna do?”
“We gonna take care of ‘em,” he replied.
The answer reflected the role he seemed to embrace throughout his life.
Born in Jamaica and raised in Delaware, Abrahams moved to the United States as a child. He met Ronjera as a teenager after spotting her at a mall and working up the courage to introduce himself. They married in 2010 while he was training with the Marine Corps at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri — in a bar, of all places, after a courthouse wedding fell through because they arrived too late.
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It was an unconventional beginning that proved fitting.
The couple’s first child arrived sooner than planned. Military service took them to eastern North Carolina. Business opportunities kept them there for years. Eventually they settled in Charlotte, where Carlos built his restaurant and helped raise a growing family.
He often joked that he had expected a much smaller household.
Growing up with five brothers, Carlos once said he originally wanted only one child of his own: “I thought the only way we’d be able to spoil them was to just have one,” he said.
Instead, he and Ronjera found themselves juggling dozens of bottles a day, mountains of diapers, sleepless nights and the challenge of raising seven children — Carlos Jr., Christian, Cameron, Cayden, Carter, Ariyah and Aniyah — without the benefit of having extended family nearby.
But when asked during that the family’s interview with the Observer about the financial pressures of suddenly more than doubling the size of his family on Dec. 1, 2024, he acknowledged the challenges but quickly shifted the conversation toward solutions.
That was just who Carlos was, Ronjera said: a provider, a problem-solver, a husband devoted to his wife and a father devoted to his children. When circumstances changed, he adjusted. When obstacles appeared, he looked for ways around or through them.
And above all else, when he took credit for that kind of mentality, he always shared it.
“We’ve always been the ones,” Carlos said, smiling at Ronjera, “that … we’re gonna figure it out no matter what.”
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