US soldier charged with killing grandfather, great-grandmother

By Edward Era Batbacena

A US WHITE soldier in Germany has been charged with murdering two relatives in South Carolina in what authorities have described as a “crime of greed.”

Gene Alexzander Scott, 24, was indicted Thursday on two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of his 61-year-old grandfather, Gene Rogers, and 78-year-old great-grandmother, Billie Rogers, Chester County Sheriff Max Dorsey said Monday.

Rogers and his mother were found dead on June 21, 2020, after Scott called deputies to report that “someone killed his grandparents,” according to an incident report obtained by The Post.

Gene Alexzander "Alex" Scott was brought back to South Carolina from Germany to face charges he killed his grandfather and great-grandmother 16 months ago.

Scott, who was living in Columbia at the time, was found kneeling on the ground at the end of the driveway at the Rogerses’ home in Richburg, where he was “crying and very distraught,” investigators said.

An extensive investigation into the slayings 16 months ago, including probes by the Army and Navy, led to last week’s indictment, a sheriff’s office spokesman told The Post.

Gene Rogers had a role in raising Scott in the home where the bodies were found, spokesman Grant Suskin said. The slayings are believed to have been “financially motivated,” but Suskin declined to provide additional details while citing the ongoing investigation.

Dorsey, meanwhile, characterized the homicides as a “crime of greed,” WCNC reported.

Deputies believe the murders occurred on June 20, 2020, one day before Father’s Day, but Scott called to report the deaths a day later, Suskin said.