Overview

• Alexander Lee Rogers was apprehended by LAPD officers on Aug. 12 in Koreatown after a security officer spotted him near Lafayette Park.
• His partially spray-painted black BMW was discovered on Aug. 11 in the 23000 block of Calabasas Road by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies.
• Authorities are now coordinating evidence processing of the abandoned vehicle as detectives from Washington and Los Angeles advance the homicide probe.
• Rogers is suspected of the Aug. 5 stabbing in Longview, Washington, that killed Dawn Peters and critically injured Andrew Peters.
• Jail records show he was released less than a year ago after nearly two decades behind bars for a 2002 machete assault.