Insanity plea for Christopher Erin Rogers Junior? - KTVA

A man charged with killing his father with a machete and then going on a deadly rampage in Anchorage may plead insanity.

[iraqis911number2]

ugly as sin

[by mother Alaska12]

iraqis911number2 wrote:

ugly as sin

Well your coment was totaly off base you know nothing about my son or his father who i may add was a very abusive person he use to beat me hand cuffed me to a frezzer burnt my son a number of times and my son burnt so bad he was in the burn unit at providance hospital but chris was a good person a careing father give me a brake he did nothing for my son payed no child suport was never a father a father takes care of his children protects them chris did non of this he put my son down every chance he could he was a evil person i think you should know the whold time line in our lifes with him and after before you point a finger the state of Alaska did nothing to protect him or me my son got beat by his father and chris did what ever he could to keep my son down in many ways befors you go and judge and put chris on a pedistal you need to know there was way more to this and you think for one min. chris was not drinking think again he did not stop drinking nor was he drug free know your facts first ok!!! he was a very mean drinker adn a drope and use to try and attack his son people very close to chris and lenny told me and how he was treated whil the short time with his father she her self was very hard on my son they both put him down the human muind can only take so much my son only wanted love from his father he never got any love from him he got only put downs to the end one thing we need to think about when a child kills a parent there are surtain things to puse it that far right and it usually end up with the child with a history of abuse kids just do not kill a parent ot of the blue.You must think do i think it was right no i do not think it was right in no way do i feel sorry for chris no i do not he got killed by the monster he created i do put the blame on chris he was never around for him and when he was i was hell. I think your coments ugly as sin was very childish you do not know the whole story and i think you would do yourself better not to jump in and judge no face value His father was no stranger to jail and a record but where that get us??? My heart gose out to the people in Anchorage that got killed and hurt i feel the greatest sorrow for them and there loved ones that young man with so much to offer the world a shame life ened all to soon and no reason for it at all.This has affected so many people in so many ways.And my life will never be the same eather never thought in a million years this would happen.He was not a scarie person he never hurt any one i do think he snapped.This as effected our famiely and his Grandmother who is 76 years old we are a very close and this hunts us every day and always will till i die.I love my son with all my heart but this shows us that we never truly know how much we can take till we break.

[AZrelative]

I would like to respond to motherAlaska12...I am someone who is indirectly related to your son. My ex-husband is your deceased ex-husband Chris Sr.'s cousin. Chris Jr.'s grandmother Julia was my kid's great-aunt. Her sister is my kids' grandmother.

First, I would like to offer my sympathy to you as a mother. I know that you will always love your son and I commend you for that. Noone knows what the reasons are that people do what they do but by the same logic, noone has the right to judge because every human is just one situation away from making a wrong choice. I am not saying that to lessen the loss of the people who were killed by your son, but only because I truly believe that anyone has the capacity to hurt and/or kill others if all the circumstances of their lives reach that point in time when the wrong choice seems to be the right one. We are all humans, and the human species is not with major flaws....every one of us.

I met your ex Chris Sr. once when my then boyfriend (later spouse)and I went to visit him at the base in San Diego. He seemed like such a happy-go-lucky guy and I really enjoyed spending time with him. We went to the San Diego Zoo and spent a few hours with him.

Later, after marrying Chris Sr.'s cousin, I sent Xmas cards to him, and I believe to you when Chris Sr was in Maine. Then somehow we lost contact....that was so many years ago. Much later I heard that Chris Sr's family had disowned him because of his drug use or some such reason.

I do not know if Chris Sr even had a funeral...I could not find an obituary for him when I searched Google. That I find incredibly sad, if it is true. I can tell you that it affected his extended family here in AZ with shock and deep sadness. Again, we do not know the relationship between Chris Sr and Chris Jr. but it is so tragic that it had to end this way.

My oldest son also has issues and I have heard the cruel comments that people say regarding why he would do what he did, since he is an incredibly intelligent person. I know that there are two sides to every story and that every situation in a person's life, combined with that person's personality and ability to handle stress, can greatly impact a person's ability to do the right thing under extreme emotional duress.

Noone deserves to die because another person is mentally incapable of making the right choices, but again, noone should judge another unless they have walked in their shoes, and many more people than anyone can imagine will end up in their shoes or with a family member or friend that has crumbled mentally under the stress of dealing with life with a mental illness. Until you have been there, do not judge....I commend you for loving your son unconditionally.

And I am deeply sorry for Chris Sr's untimely death and the death of other innocent victims....it is a tragedy to all that are involved and will continue to affect EVERYONE on all sides for the rest of their lives. Truly a human tragedy of great proportions.

Good luck to you - stay strong and positive and try to recover as much of your life as you can. I know how hard it is, because nothing will ever be the same.