Christopher Erin Rogers, Jr., views the gallery as his trial for murder and attempted murder opens Tuesday March 24, 2009 at Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage.
Christopher Erin Rogers Jr., who was serving a 498-year prison sentence for a 2007 rampage that included killing his sleeping father with a machete, died Saturday at Seward Providence Medical Center, according to an Alaska Department of Corrections statement.
The statement did not provide a cause of death. The maximum-security Spring Creek Correctional Center is near Seward.
On Dec. 2, 2007, Rogers began a rampage with a machete attack at his father’s home in Palmer and continued in Anchorage with carjackings and shootings. The spree left two people dead and three grievously injured.
In December 2008, Rogers was convicted for killing his father, Christopher Rogers Sr., while he slept. He also nearly killed his father’s fiancee, Elann “Lennie” Moren, who was also in the bed. The attack left Moren scarred and disabled. Rogers also hacked his father’s dog when it tried to stop him.
A year later, Rogers was convicted for shooting and killing college student Jason Wenger in Anchorage during the spree and attempting to murder law clerk Liz Rumsey and landscape architect Tamas Deak, along with robbery, assault and other charges.
Rogers was the fourth person to die in custody this year, according to the DOC.
Prisoner deaths are reviewed by the Alaska State Troopers and the state’s medical examiner’s office, according to the news release.
An inmate at the Mat-Su Pretrial facility died in March while in a hospital after a suicide attempt.
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