High Yella ex-NBA G-Leaguer Chance Comanche faces murder, kidnapping charges after woman’s remains found

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Ex-NBA G-Leaguer Chance Comanche faces murder, kidnapping charges after woman’s remains found

The former G-League player and girlfriend arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 23-year-old Washington medical assistant in Las Vegas have been charged with kidnapping and murder, acco…

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Ex-NBA G-Leaguer Chance Comanche faces murder, kidnapping charges after woman’s remains found​

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Published Dec. 17, 2023, 8:03 p.m. ET








The former G-League player and girlfriend arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 23-year-old Washington medical assistant in Las Vegas have been charged with kidnapping and murder, according to police.
Chance Comanche, 27, was released from the Stockton Kings, a developmental affiliate of the Sacramento Kings, shortly after his arrest.
He played a G-League game in Henderson, Nevada, 15 miles from Las Vegas, the night before Marayna Rodgers was last seen and reported missing.
Rodgers vanished on Dec. 6, when she was on a trip to visit Las Vegas and got into a car with her friend, Sakari Harnden, 19, according to KLAS.
Based on the information obtained after Comanche and Harnden’s arrest detectives were able to recover human remains, later identified as Rodgers, in a desert area in Henderson, Nevada, police said in a press release.
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Kings G-Leaguer Chance Comanche is not facing a murder charge in Las Vegas Getty Images
According to police, it was determined that Harnden and Commanche were responsible for Rodgers’ death and both will be charged with open murder.
Harnden, the girlfriend of Comanche, was arrested in Las Vegas on Dec. 13 and booked into the downtown Las Vegas Jail, also on a first-degree kidnapping charge, KLAS reported, citing court records.
A criminal complaint accused Harnden of “detaining Rogers against her will and without her consent for the purpose of killing her and/or inflicting bodily harm,” according to the outlet.
Harnden was also arrested on a theft charge for allegedly stealing a Rolex.
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Human remains of Marayna Rodgers were found in the desert of Henderson, Nevada. Former Kings G-League player Chance Commanche and girlfriend Sakari Harnden are being charged with kidnapping and murder LVMPD
Comanche was in Portland, Oregon for the Kings’ game against the Rip City Remix on Dec. 7, less than 24 hours removed from Rodgers’ vanishing.
It is not known how long Comanche was in Las Vegas.
He was arrested in California by California FBI Criminal Apprehension team and is pending extradition to Nevada for kidnapping, according to a statement by police on Sunday.
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Marayna Rodgers was on a trip with friends visiting Las Vegas when she disappeared on Dec. 6. 2023. Marayna Rodgers/Facebook



Comanche is being held in the Sacramento County Main Jail without bail, according to records.


Comanche, a 6-foot-10 center, is due in court Tuesday.


He played college basketball at Arizona and played in one NBA game, with the Portland Trail Blazers on April 9.

 

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Police: G League player admits to planning woman’s murder

Marayna Rodgers, 23, was found dead in Henderson after police say Sakari Harnden and Chance Comanche killed her and disposed of the body.

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Police: G League player admits to planning woman’s murder​

Sakari Harnden appears in Las Vegas Justice Court for an initial appearance on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. She is facing a murder charge in connection with a woman's body found in Henderson. (Katelyn Newberg/Las Vegas Review-Journal)


Screen shot of a GoFundMe page set up for Marayna Rodgers Monday, December 18, 2023.

Sakari Harnden (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)


By David Wilson and Brett Clarkson Las Vegas Review-Journal

December 19, 2023 - 9:42 am


Updated December 19, 2023 - 8:33 pm



A former professional basketball player admitted to killing a 23-year-old woman with another woman and planning the murder, according to an arrest report.
Authorities in California arrested 27-year-old Chance Comanche during a practice session Thursday in Sacramento.

He later told Las Vegas homicide detectives that he followed the direction of 19-year-old Sakari Harnden, who told him she was having issues with Rodgers, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report.

Harnden was upset with Marayna Rodgers, who told other people that Harnden had implicated her boyfriend in a double murder in California, according to the report.
Comanche said he and Harnden planned to lure Rodgers away from her friends so they could kill her.

Police obtained text messages from the Telegram app in which Harnden and Comanche discussed their plans. During one exchange, Comanche sent a coffin emoji to Harnden, according to the report.
“Starting my game. I’ll check half time,” Comanche wrote.
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A person identified only as Trevion in the report was added to the Telegram group. Comanche told Las Vegas detectives that he called his friend “Tre” to “commit the murder for him and Sakari but that Tre was not interested,” the report stated.
“I can snap her neck or just strangle the (expletive),” Comanche wrote in the group chat.

Comanche pretended to be a client for prostitution. He and Harnden were in Harnden’s vehicle when Rodgers arrived. Comanche described strangling Rodgers with an HDMI cord while Harnden choked her with her hands.
He said they hid Rodgers’ body in a ditch on Vincenzo Lane in Henderson. Police responded and found Rodgers dead.
The Clark County coroner’s office Tuesday morning had not confirmed Rodgers’ cause of death.

Rodgers’ friends reported her missing on Dec. 7. A day prior, Harnden filed a missing person report for Rodgers, according to the arrest report.
Telegram messages included in the report showed Comanche telling Harnden what to say about Rodgers’ disappearance.
“You got this boo. This the post game interview. Just smile and wave,” Comanche wrote.
Police interviewed Rodgers’ boyfriend, identified only as Tremaine, who said he and Rodgers drove to Las Vegas from Washington state on Dec. 1 “with the intent of engaging in prostitution,” according to the report.
According to a verified GoFundMe page created by a Tremaine McAdams, Rodgers had two dogs and worked as a surgical tech.

“She left behind both her dogs, her car, and all belongings making it very unlikely that she disappeared on her own,” according to the online fundraiser, which was created Dec. 9, two days after Rodgers had been reported missing to Las Vegas police. “She also had no cash or debit card at the time of her disappearance.”
Harnden and Comanche are each facing a charge of open murder, according to court records.
Rodgers lived in Washington state, the GoFundMe said.
When neither Rodgers’ boyfriend nor her close friends had heard from her the next morning, they realized she was missing.
The GoFundMe was set up to help cover the cost of private investigators, as well as other costs associated with the effort to bring Rodgers home safely, the online fundraiser states.
Comanche, who played one game with the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers in April, had played a 7 p.m. NBA G League game in Henderson on Dec. 5. He scored 16 points in the Stockton Kings’ 103-91 loss to the Henderson-based Ignite at Dollar Loan Center.
Harnden was arrested Dec. 15 in Las Vegas. She made an initial court appearance Monday and was ordered back in court on Wednesday.
Comanche’s extradition to Nevada is pending. As of Tuesday morning, Comanche had not been booked into the Clark County Detention Center.
Contact Brett Clarkson at bclarkson@reviewjournal.com. Contact David Wilson at dwilson@reviewjournal.com.