He Served Time for a Machete Attack. Now, He's Been Arrested in the Fatal Stabbing of a Woman Who Hired Him as a Handyman By KC Baker

A suspect who was wanted for allegedly stabbing a Washington state woman to death and seriously wounding her brother-in-law was captured in Los Angeles after a week-long manhunt, authorities said.

Alexander Lee Rogers, 51, of Longview, Wash., was taken into custody on Tuesday, Aug. 12, in the Koreatown area, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said at a press conference, CBS News reports.

Officers said they had positively identified the wanted suspect and that he was taken into custody without incident, McDonnell said.

Police had been searching for Rogers, who was wanted in connection with the alleged Aug. 5 murder of Dawn Peters, 64, and the attempted murder of Andrew Peters, 73, Captain Branden McNew of the Longview Police Department said in a Facebook post on Aug. 6.

Rogers is believed to have been working as a handyman for the victims, KOMO News reports.

Dawn Peters died from her injuries and Andrew Peters was reported to be in stable condition and recovering at a local hospital.

Andrew was slashed in the throat, but “if it wasn’t for him pushing the panic button the other 2 people in the house would’ve also been dead,” reads a GoFundMe set up to help defray costs of Dawn Peters’ funeral and to help repair the home in the aftermath of the attack.

L.A. County deputies had found Rogers’ car, a black BMW, in Calabasas on Aug. 11.

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Rogers was released from prison earlier this year after serving a sentence for first-degree assault in a machete attack that injured two people in the early 2000s, McNew told KTLA-TV.

In the GoFundMe, the organizer wrote that Dawn “was truly the kindest woman.”

“There wasn’t a single person on this earth that she didn’t care about,” the fundraising appeal reads. “She took care of everyone around her no matter the extent.

Rogers remains jailed in Los Angeles pending extradition. It is unclear whether he has retained an attorney who can speak on his behalf.