Officer Rogers was shot and killed while responding to the scene of the murder of Special Agent Winfield Wooten, of the Missouri-Kentucky-Texas Railroad Police Department. Agent Wooten had stopped two juveniles for speeding. One of the juveniles attacked him. The juvenile shot and killed Special Agent Wooten with his own weapon.
Officer Rogers was one of several officers responding to the scene and was shot and killed by the suspect as he stepped from his car. Other officers returned fire and killed the suspect.
