Man shot to death in Charleston

The Post and Courier
Monday, June 16, 2008


A Charleston man was shot to death around midnight Sunday at the corner of America and Amherst streets.

Earl Rogers, 36, died within an hour of being transported to the Medical University Hospital, Charleston County Deputy Coroner Kelly Myers said.

Investigators have no suspects or motive, said Charles Francis, public information officer for the Charleston Police Department. The shooting is still under investigation, he said.

Rogers has a criminal history dating back to 1992, according to the Charleston County Courts Web site. In 2007, he was charged with five counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine.



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Posted by pe_ce on June 16, 2008 at 10:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)

And regarding the comment where the person mentioned his kids, you got the nerve to mention his kids and put good riddance? How dumb. His kids don't feel like that. Please know what you are talking about before your write dumb comments about people's father.

And furthermore his criminal history don't give nobody the right to kill him. Thou Shalt Not Kill. OH I forgot not many of us go to church or even attend Sunday School. We sin to but we can sit around talking about other people like we are any better. And these are the same adults who are raising children. Shame on you.

And to say he won't be missed. WOW. You are a heartless person. He is missed. He has a mother, father, sisters, brothers, kids, aunts, uncles, grandmother, and friends who love him and are missing him right now. Earl is nothing short of having family.

For the sperm donor comment. Every child that is here is suppose to be here. Yes including you. His children loves him. You are judging him for being behind on child support? What about all these others guys who are not paying child support. Does that give anybody the RIGHT to murder them? Heck no. And besides what about these women who keep having unprotected sex with these men and they KNOW what kind of life they live. Aren't they just as RESPONSIBLE????????? Maybe they need to learn how to allow God to bring a man in their lives. Get to know him. Marry him if they wish and then have a baby. How I forgot we don't practice that anymore. Women need to be more responsible as well in picking their baby daddy. But rest to sure his daughter to loves him. Heck some of your father's weren't in your life.



Posted by NavyChief on June 17, 2008 at 12:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)

First let’s look at all the things that are being said and not said. The fact of the matter is that there seems to be a mismanagement of what actually took place. This man, human being, like all of you posting these commits, was shot and killed. Regardless of his history and the way he lived his life he was murdered and his family and children will no longer have him in their life. I can understand a lot of your concerns as to the life he was living and to the type person he was. I will not go the biblical wrought but more the common sense one. We are all given different starts in life, as well as have opportunities to develop in to productive citizens. No one really knows why we do what we do, but we can’t sit here and judge neither him nor anyone else. So what he had a criminal record, anytime you get a speeding ticket you is considered a criminal. How can we make commits that he was a dirt bag, and good riddance? When we are just as guilty in the misdemeanor crimes we commit. No one does this when a drunk driver kills a family because of their poor decisions in life. Maybe we should get all the dirt bags together and kill them all; maybe this will make the world a better place. Here you sit and pass judgment as if you all are Gods, or better than anyone else in the world. A man has been killed, and there is no reason to take the light off of that. No he may not be able to sell drugs to your kids or anyone else, no he may not rob you or any one else, and how can any of you in judgment of him say that it still will not happen. The thing is we can’t nor can we sit here and continue to tear this man down. I am a family member of this man that you are destroying and I have heard and had enough of it.
Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies:
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that died with shame
Lives in death with glorious fame.