A U.S. Military soldier stationed in Germany was indicted within the murders of his grandfather and his great-grandmother, whose our bodies had been discovered of their South Carolina house on Father’s Day final 12 months, authorities mentioned Monday.
The soldier, Gene Alexzander Scott, 24, whose rank was not disclosed, was taken into custody by army police final week and transferred to the Chester County jail, the place earlier he was awaiting a bond listening to, the native sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
A grand jury indicted Scott on two counts of homicide and one depend of possession of a weapon through the fee of a violent crime.
It is not clear whether or not Scott has an legal professional. Court docket data did not listing one.
Gene Rogers, 61, and Billie Rogers, 78, had been discovered shot to dying of their house in Richburg, about 50 miles north of Columbia, on June 21, 2020, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Sheriff Max Dorsey mentioned they had been most definitely killed the day earlier than.
In an incident report obtained by NBC Information, a deputy wrote that Scott flagged down a passerby and mentioned that somebody had killed his grandparents. After the particular person referred to as 911, deputies discovered Scott on the finish of the driveway, “kneeling on the bottom crying and really distraught,” the incident report says.
Dorsey mentioned Gene Rogers partly raised his grandson within the house the place his and his mom’s our bodies had been discovered. Dorsey described a potential motive within the killings as monetary. He declined to supply extra particulars.
On-line obituaries described Billie Rogers as the previous service supervisor of an automotive store in Charleston and Gene Rogers as an worker of the distributor Airgas.
“This was such a tragedy,” a girl who recognized herself as Gene Rogers’ niece wrote on Fb. She added: “Gene beloved that baby unconditionally.”
Earlier than he joined the Military in January, Scott was within the Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the place he was an ammo technician, Dorsey mentioned.
After infantry coaching in Georgia, Scott was stationed in Vilseck, Germany, Dorsey mentioned.
