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Alaska Man Killed 2 Injured 3 Attack - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 8th Dec, 2007 - 9:54am
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A car chase through downtown Anchorage ended in the arrest of a man who killed two people and seriously injured three others in a series of machete and gun attacks, police said.
Alaska Man Killed 2, Injured 3 In Attack
This is absolutely disturbing. This guy must be mental or something to commit such atrocity.
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| Police stopped Christopher Erin Rogers Jr., 28, on Monday by ramming the stolen sport utility vehicle he was driving, Anchorage Police Department spokesman Lt. Paul Honeman said. Rogers is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree attempted murder. An arraignment was scheduled for Tuesday. Rogers was being held on $1 million bail, Anchorage District Attorney Adrienne Bachman said. The public defender's office in Palmer, which has previously represented Rogers, said it had not received paperwork to appoint him an attorney. According to an affidavit by police Detective Steve Hill, Rogers used a machete to kill his 51-year-old father, Christopher E. Rogers Sr., and seriously injure his father's 55-year-old girlfriend, Elann Moren, early Sunday in Palmer, about 40 miles north of Anchorage. Rogers traveled to Anchorage after the attack in his father's truck. He took a .357 revolver and ammunition from the vehicle, the affidavit said. Once there, Rogers abandoned the truck and went in search of another vehicle, it said. He shot Jason Wenger, 27, a graduate student at the University of Alaska Anchorage, while Wenger was sitting in his idling Ford Bronco in his driveway, according to the affidavit. Rogers opted not to take Wenger's vehicle because the shots made a lot of noise and he "did not want to take on the whole neighborhood," it said. |
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This has had our town in a sense of uneasiness!
| Rather off topic, but... I was just telling my husband about how I had mentioned here that I was used to reading things of this nature happening in "other" places but it is coming closer and closer to home--and this one was way too close. |
The father and girlfriend live next door to a church friend of ours and they are within 5 miles or so of where we live. I have been reading a lot of the articles and such and he is a scary person. More so, to me because he was so nonchalant about saying that he "hacked" his father to death because he was angry with them. This is what he had to say about that-
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| Rogers Jr. was already on his way to Anchorage in his father's black truck. He later told police that killing his father with a machete took a lot of energy and that he should have "just shot them" but he couldn't find his father's gun. |
This really got me as well--it actually sickens my heart to hear someone talk about killing like it has no effect on others:
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| A BREATHER A fleeing Rogers made his way through neighborhoods on foot toward downtown, he told police. He tired and took a nap in some woods. When he woke up, he bought a pack of smokes and a bottle of beer, then set out to find another victim, he told police. He wasn't worried about getting caught anymore, he said. He "just wanted to kill a few more people along the way." |
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| As Deak got out of his car to go back inside, Rogers approached him. He had learned from his earlier mistake, he told police, and this time around, he waited for Deak to get out of the car before he shot him multiple times in the arm and torso. Rogers sped off as Deak lay on the ground, yelling for his wife. |
Basically he waited for him to get out of the car-the other one (grad student) he shot him in the drivers seat and then feared that the bullets were too loud and would arouse the neighborhood so he took off running. He also didn't think he would have the time to take him out of the car and him get in before someone seeing him.
He is scheduled to be arraigned today in Anchorage on all the charges. He has a rap sheet for crimes in Anchorage and the Mat-su Valley, where we live.
I forgot to add the link where the above quotes can be found:
https://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story...p-9407958c.html
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UPDATE:
Rogers faces new murder charges
The man whose rampage left two people dead and four injured was indicted today on eight felony counts for his alleged crimes in Palmer and is now being held on at least 11 felony charges, according to the Palmer district attorney.
Rogers is now charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder for killing his father, Christopher Rogers Sr., 51, last Sunday, according to the district attorney.
Rogers has also been charged with first-degree attempted murder and two counts of first-degree assault for the attack on his father's fiancee, Elann Moren, 55. Moren is expected to recover, though she is still hospitalized.
He was also charged Friday with first-degree vehicle theft and second-degree theft for stealing the gun.
A jury will decide which of the multiple charges best fits the facts that are proven, said Palmer District Attorney Roman Kalytiak.
Rogers is also charged with first-degree murder for killing Jason Wenger, 27, a graduate student at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has been charged with first-degree attempted murder for shooting Elizabeth Rumsey, 33, a law clerk for the Alaska Supreme Court, and Tamas Deak, 43, a landscape architect.
Both are expected to survive.
Rogers is being held on a total of $2 million cash-only bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned at the Palmer Courthouse on the new charges Monday.
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