Man gets 40 years in stabbing

He pleads guilty to November slaying of brother in NLR

A 27-year-old Jacksonville man who stabbed his younger brother to death last year in North Little Rock has accepted a 40-year prison sentence for killing the man while on probation.

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Demedrick Montrell "Big Boy" Rogers pleaded guilty Wednesday to probation revocation and manslaughter for the November death of Quentin Quintrell Rogers, 21, outside the home of relatives on Arkansas Avenue. Demedrick Rogers had been scheduled to stand trial today before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims on the manslaughter charge.

Demedrick Rogers was on probation for drug and robbery charges at the time of his arrest, about 6½ hours after Quentin Rogers succumbed to his wounds.

In the arrangement with prosecutors, Demedrick Rogers accepted a 20-year sentence for manslaughter, the maximum available for a habitual offender with up to three prior felonies. He also accepted a second 20-year sentence, which will run consecutively, for violating his probation. In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors dropped a felon in possession of a firearm charge.

According to court records, police found Quentin Rogers lying on the front steps of the home, with another brother, Travis Terrell Rogers, 23, applying pressure to the stab wounds.

Asked by police who had stabbed him, Quentin Rogers said Demedrick Rogers, and Travis Rogers told the officers that Demedrick was their brother. Quentin Rogers died of his wounds at the hospital about 90 minutes later.

Travis Rogers told police that his brothers had gotten into a fight and that he had separated them. Quentin Rogers had gotten a vodka bottle and Demedrick Rogers got a knife from the kitchen, and they went outside, he told officers.

Before he could follow his brothers outside, he heard glass break, which was the sound of Quentin Rogers breaking out the back window of Demedrick Rogers' wife's car, Travis Rogers said. When he got outside, his younger brother told him, "he stabbed me, bro," court records show.

Metro on 06/24/2014

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