He raised him like a son, but today, 53-year-old Arthur Arnold was charged for the murder of his 19 year old stepson, Jermaine Arnold. He is accused of killing the teenager on Friday night - at the family home on Neal's Pen Road. Today, the deeply distressed mother and ex-wife today told me how it happened.

Alfonso Noble Reporting,
Carol Rogers was at home along with her four children and a family friend sometime around 7 on Friday night. She says her son, 19 year old Jermaine Arnold was sitting here on this small chair. His friend 28 year old Randolph Gibson was in this couch and the other children ages 12, 11, and nine were seated in the same living room area. As the family was having a discussion with Gibson, Arthur Arnold, Roger's former husband came into the house.

Carol Rogers, Mother of Deceased
"Mr. Gibson was sitting right in the chair here that you are in right now and I was sitting here and my son was sitting here and my daughter was sitting here. He doesn't know the young man any at all and when the young comes, he usually talks to my son and when he talks to my son he would talk to me too. And when he would talk to me he would say, 'Miss Carol, so and so happened.' He would tell me great ideas, what to do and what not to do because I sometimes I would tell him I am tired of living by myself and then I have to do everything for myself. He would give me little ideas and so on what to do.

Mr. Arnold came in and he told the young man, between 7 to 7:30, if he could please leave the house. The young man asked why should he leave the house and then I told him to please take a walk because we don't want to have any problem. When I told him that, he walked down the step and walked up back and when he opened door, he inflicted wounds on the young man and then he turned to my son and inflicted wounds on my son. Only one stab caught my son and the young man got two stabs in this area here and one in his neck. It was three stabs, I didn't even know that he got three stabs until he told me when I went to look for him on Saturday."

Rogers says she had absolutely no clue that her ex-husband would attack her son and his friend in this manner.

Carol Rogers,
"Nobody expected that because it left me in shock. This is the first time he has gone on that way. It is not something he usually does but as I told you, he is somebody who was under the influence of liquor. There was no kind of argument. He came in that violence kind of way. He was under the influence of liquor and cocaine. He was under the influence of liquor and cocaine."

Now, what Rogers claims was an attack by an inebriated Arnold has her trying to hold her family together. Her oldest child is dead and now she fears her daughter may not be doing too well since the attack happened in front of the entire family.

Carol Rogers,
"I have to talk to my daughter because it happened in front of her and she now stays by herself. I continue have to go talk to her. This morning I took her to school and I asked the principal of the school to please don't leave her by herself, ask the children to talk to her just to let her not go into that mood back."

Alfonso Noble,
How are you taking it Ma'am?

Carol Rogers,
"Well I have to hold up a little bit until when I try to bury him. Right now I have to ask for some little help to bury him because right now I have to be out of my work."

And while she tries to figure out her next move, even in her time of personal need she extends as much as she can do for the other blameless young man who was injured in the attack.

Carol Rogers,
"All I want to know to Mr. Gibson, to Mr. Roger Gibson, is that whatever I can do to help him, although I have my son dead, I will give my sympathy to him too because I don't want to leave him just like that at the hospital. I have to take the rap (responsibility) for the two incidents which happened."

And while she regrets that Gibson is in the hospital, what she regrets even more is the death of her child whom Arnold had raised like his own son.

Carol Rogers,
"Mr. Arnold actually raised that child from he was a baby. He raised him from he was a baby. I have two sons and one daughter for him and this one who died is not for him and he raised him from he was small, like his son."