309 years for machete killer

By Frontiersman staff
Published on Friday, November 13, 2009 2:56 PM AKST

MAT-SU — Christopher Erin Rogers Jr., received 309 years in prison today for the Anchorage end of his 2007 killing spree.

Rogers was convicted in Anchorage in April of murder, attempted murder, robbery and eluding a police officer. In Anchorage, he shot three people, wounding two and killing one — Jason Wenger, 27.

Reached in Anchorage, the district attorney who handled the sentencing, Adrienne Bachman, said, “the judge labeled Mr. Rogers as cold-hearted, cold-blooded and that these offenses were heinous and warranted the maximum sentences to isolate him from the public and protect the public.”

Rogers received the maximum sentence of 99 years in prison for both of the attempted murder charges and the murder charge. He is expected to receive a sentence for the Palmer end of his spree in January which he killed his father and grievously wounded his father's fiancée, Elann Moren.

More on this story will be in Sunday's Frontiersman

Comments

7 comment(s)

    Chris wrote on Nov 24, 2009 2:04 AM:

    " Three horse rule. That is "WE THE PEOPLE"!!! Oh, Thats right our legislators really can not do anything right unless it involves lining there pockets. We must remember, organized crime was put to rest with the mafia. Suurrree!! "

    offsoapstone wrote on Nov 17, 2009 10:25 PM:

    " I can't believe we have to feed this guy till hes dead. "

    jp wrote on Nov 16, 2009 4:30 PM:

    " $0.12 for a .22 shell, pretty fiscally conservative I'd say! "

    Houston Resident wrote on Nov 16, 2009 9:05 AM:

    " I believe that monsters such as this are a waste of oxygen. "

    Not enough wrote on Nov 14, 2009 9:57 AM:

    " We send honorable men and women to die in no win wars everyday. Our society condones and supports the murdering of the unborn. Low life scum like Christopher Erin Rogers is allowed to live at tax payer expense,perhaps for another 50 years or more. We need to have a death penalty now. Heinous criminals such as this must be shown society places the rights of the honest citizens ABOVE,YES YOU LIBS ABOVE the rights of the predatory vermin among us. "

    Justice system is a joke wrote on Nov 13, 2009 11:36 PM:

    " 309 years, come on. Does anyone ever do 309 years. And that looks like just the start of it. Just call it a death sentence and light him up. Got to quote uncle Ted Nugent on this one, " I believe in dead offenders, not repeat offenders." If he is bad enough, and a big enough threat to the public to get 309 years, then save all our money and get rid of him. "

    Debbie wrote on Nov 13, 2009 5:13 PM:

    " I'd say put him 2 DEATH, Y should the good tax payers pay to keep housed and feed.
    He's an animal put him DOWN, let's take a vote from the public, Do we want 2 support this monster or do we want him dead? "

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