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Landscape Architect Among Victims of Alaska Rampage12-18-07 | News

Landscape Architect Among Victims of Alaska Rampage




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Tamas Deak, a landscape architect with KPB Architects in Anchorage, is recovering from six bullet wounds. photo: Anchorage Daily News


On Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007 Christopher Erin Rogers Jr., 28, of Palmer, Alaska (40 miles north of Anchorage) ?EUR??,,????'??allegedly?EUR??,,????'?? killed his father, Christopher, with a machete, then slashed his father’s fianc????(C)e, Elann Moren. Bear, the family dog, came to her rescue, disrupting the attack and allowing her to escape to the bathroom and call 911. In the fracas, Bear?EUR??,,????'???s lip was cut.

Rogers later allegedly shot and killed Jason Wenger, 27, who was in his car in his own driveway. He then shot and wounded Liz Rumsey, then Tamas Deak, 43, a landscape architect with KPB Architects. Mr. Deak was also in his driveway about to leave for work. He was shot six times and struggled with the assailant, who took his Jeep. Mr. Deak was able to call for help on his cell phone. Police eventually arrested Rogers about five miles from downtown Anchorage.

Mr. Deak is already out of the hospital and even went to the office for a year-end meeting. He is a native of Hungary who came to the U.S. to get his master’s in landscape architecture at the University of Georgia. He moved to Alaska with his wife in January 1994. He is currently working on a Habitat for Humanity project in Spenard.

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