Tulsa Man Arrested, Accused Of Of Sexually Assaulting 3 Women At Gunpoint

Tulsa Police arrest a man Friday prosecutors charged with raping three women he didn’t know at gunpoint.

Police say DNA and surveillance video helped them link the three cases to Christopher Rogers. Tulsa Police say it’s important that all these victims came forward and filed police reports because it helped investigators link Rogers to all the cases.

The first victim says Rogers gave her a ride, but instead of taking her to the place she asked to go to, he drove her to an empty parking lot, pulled out a gun, and raped her. This rape happened in March of 2022, and the DNA in that case came back to Rogers.

Police say the victim decided to no longer cooperate with the investigation, so the case went nowhere.

A second woman came forward in April of this year and said Rogers gave her a ride but took her to a different place, pulled out a gun and raped her. The DNA from that case came back to Rogers last month.

In the meantime, a third woman said she had been raped in the exact same way just last weekend. The third victim said she was also pistol-whipped.

Lieutenant Darin Ehrenreich with Tulsa Police says it's important to get repeat offenders off the streets.

“What we know about offenders who commit these types of crimes is, statistically, if they've done it once, either they have done it in the past or they are going to do it again,” said Ehrenreich. “That's just the statistics behind the repeated nature of sexual assaults.”

Ehrenreich says it makes all the difference in a case for victims to get a good description of the scene, the suspect, and the vehicle. This includes the height, weight, age, race, and gender of the suspect, as well as whether they have any tattoos.

Other things that help the police are the color, make, and model of the vehicle the suspect is traveling in.

"In every one of these incidents, these are three women who don't know each other, who have no connections,” said Ehrenreich. “They're all telling the exact same story: that he's brandishing a firearm and telling them to take their clothes off."

He says victims often don’t report rapes because they are scared, but coming forward can help save the next person.

“Regardless of the facts of your case, I think it's important to know that we take every case seriously and we're going to work every case to the best of our ability to bring victims of these horrific crimes to justice,” said Ehrenreich.

In addition to the three rape charges, Rogers is also charged with two counts of lewd molestation in Tulsa County. He also has a criminal record in Texas, where he was given deferred sentences for drug and weapon convictions.

Rogers was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on a $200,000 bail.