Baton Rouge TV Personality Murdered

Scott Rogers

A Baton Rouge television personality, who died Wednesday, had a sexual relationship with his son-in law, who allegedly shot and killed him, Iberville Sheriff Brett Stassi said Thursday evening.

According to nola.com, Scott Rogers, 52 and the host of the Around Town show that aired on WAFB-TV, died from a single gunshot wound to the head in what authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide attempt. Stassi believes Matthew Hodgkinson shot and killed Rogers and then attempted to commit suicide. Hodgkinson survived and was transported to Our Lady of the Lake Hospital where he remains in critical condition.

Rogers, who is from the United Kingdom, was acquitted of child molestation charges involving a 13-year-old boy in the early 1990s.  He then moved from the UK to the United States in 1996 with his daughter.

Seth Dornier, Rogers' attorney said Thursday that Rogers was concerned that the child molestation case in England would come back to light as he was undergoing a federal investigation.

"A federal grand jury had been called to investigate if Scott Rogers was really Scott Rogers," Stassi said.

Hodgkinson, 36, is married to Rogers' daughter, Kimberly Ann Scott-Rogers, who was reportedly testifying before a grand jury when Rogers was killed Wednesday.

Stassi, however, says the marriage was a ploy to get Hodgkinson citizenship in the United States. Rogers owned a dance studio in the UK during the early 1990s and Hodgkinson was a student of his, Stassi said.

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Just one day after Rogers died, two alleged victims came forward saying Rogers abused both of them when they were young boys.

Both spoke out anonymously for the first time on the Jim Engster Radio Show Thursday morning on WRKF 89.3 FM.