CLAWSON (WWJ) – A Clawson man accused of killing a friend while he was high on psychedelic mushrooms last year has pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter.
Steven Rogers, 38, is accused of shooting 35-year-old Christopher Ramsey of Warren on Jan. 31, 2021 after the two allegedly took “magic mushrooms.”
Rogers had previously been charged with open murder, but that charge was dismissed in exchange for his involuntary manslaughter plea, according to a report from the Macomb Daily.
Ramsey was found lying face down in a bedroom in Rogers’s home on Nakota Street.
Rogers had been arrested that night after leaving another home on Nakota. Authorities had been searching for him for a home invasion and allegedly hitting a woman in the head with a beer bottle.
When he was arrested, he was reportedly wrapped in an American flag that he’d stolen from someone’s porch.
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Following his arrest, police went to his home, where they discovered Ramsey’s body.
Authorities said at the time it was the first murder in Clawson in 15 years.
Rogers has told authorities he doesn’t remember killing Ramsey.
The judge accepted Rogers’s pleas – for the involuntary manslaughter, as well as home invasion and two counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony – under a Cobbs Agreement, with the understanding that his sentencing will be at the low end of guidelines, according to the Daily.
His sentencing is scheduled for May 17.
