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• Tony Rogers
• Adam Armstrong
• William Anthony Rogers
• Crime
• Arson

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As he was led away in handcuffs out of the courtroom, his mother, who'd given a tearless and angry character defense for her son during sentencing, looked at Adam Armstrong and Marina Lara and said, "I hope you're happy." Adam said, "I am."

But as he admitted later, he isn't happy about any of this. Neither am I. Tony Rogers' inability to control his passions could've killed not just the object of his wrath, Adam Armstrong, but two people who'd never met him. Actually, that's not true--I met Rogers in the hall outside Adam's apartment a short time before the fire was set. We locked eyes. He knew that at least one other person was in the building, and he set the fire anyway. The Parkland RN who worked with burn patients succeeded in burning Adam, but not even close to the agonized state he'd often witnessed and helped relieve. In the end, thanks largely to a random collision, it was his own life he torched, not Adam's or that of the stranger in boxer shorts padding down the hall after his cat.