NBA G-League Player & GF “Execute Murder Plan,” Accused Of Killing Woman In Las Vegas Valley

[Sugar Cookie]

Marayna Rodgers

A G-league Stockton Kings basketball player and his girlfriend are accused of killing a woman who had been reported missing, according to Las Vegas Metro Police.

Chance Comanche, 27, and Sakari Harnden, 19, are expected to face an open murder charge. The remains of Marayna Rodgers, 23, were located in a desert area in Henderson, just outside of Las Vegas, police said.

Rodgers, a medical assistant from Washington state, had been reported missing. Loved ones told 8 News Now Investigators that she was last seen on Dec. 6 during a visit to Las Vegas with friends. Police said she was reported missing on the afternoon of Dec. 7.

Police learned that Rodgers was out with friends on Dec. 5 and had a pre-arranged meeting with Harnden, who would bring her boyfriend, according to a news release. Detectives suspected foul play and obtained evidence to arrest Comanche and Harnden, police said.

Comanche was taken into custody on Friday by a California FBI Criminal Apprehension Team in connection with the disappearance, 8 News Now Investigators have learned.

Harnden, 19, was taken into custody on a first-degree kidnapping charge on Dec. 13, as 8 News Now Investigators first reported. She was arrested in Las Vegas. As of Sunday morning, she remained in a downtown Las Vegas jail with $500,000 bail.

Loved ones told 8 News Now Investigators that Rodgers had a good job and would never leave her family back home in Washington state or abandon the dogs she had brought to Las Vegas.

A criminal complaint for the kidnapping charge against Harnden stated that she held or detained Rodgers against her will and without her consent for the purpose of killing her and/or inflicting bodily harm.

NBA G-league player and girlfriend “execute murder plan,” accused of killing woman in Las Vegas valley, police say

A G-league Stockton Kings basketball player and his girlfriend are accused of killing a woman who had been reported missing, according to Las Vegas Metro Police.

www.8newsnow.com

 

[cubby]

Ex girlfriend?

If not, then just why? Cause they could?

 

[BuffettGirl]

Not sure I'd be advertising that I was on the "G" league... Savages.

 

[Josh P]

Obviously no chance he'll ever grow a real mustache.

 

[Symmachus]

Hoo-boy, does this story give me so much material or what?

I remember hearing about Chance Comanche before this happened, due to my following of basketball. (Also, his name is pretty distinctive and memorable.) He played 21 minutes of a single game for the Portland Trail Blazers in 2022-23, the final game of the season, where he scored seven points, three rebounds, and a block. They faced off against the Golden State Warriors, whose team was fully staffed and using their tried and true Curry-Thompson-Green-Looney quartet, hoping to secure a playoff position and escape needing to participate in the play-in round. Meanwhile, the Blazers were in the "*hands raised in frustration* I give up, whatever" phase, and were prioritizing giving NBA experience to G League players and benchwarmers; whereas, the team's playoff hopes were dashed by this point. Their star player Damian Lillard had, for a while now, been shut down for the season after playing only 58 games, and it turned out that he had already played his final game for the Blazers before eventually getting traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. (Side note: the word "Bucks" at the end of that sentence has a zigzag red underline. What the hell is that all about? Somehow, the second iteration of the word, inside this parenthetical passage, doesn't have that, even though both are spelled the same way and the correct way.)

The result of the game was that the Trail Blazers lost by 56 points! That is the second worst loss in Blazers franchise history, as well as tied for 13th worst loss in NBA history. And the Warriors made it into the Western Conference's sixth place, barely moving past the need to do a play-in game.

Also, Comanche is among the likes of Slavko Vranes, Carl Bailey, and Bill Stricker as NBA players whose entire career consisted of one game for the Trail Blazers.

Not only that, but in the aforementioned 56-point blowout, 11% of all Trail Blazers who played in that game have been charged with murder. Okay, sure, only nine Blazers played in that game, and Comanche is the only one of those nine to have this legal trouble, but one ninth of any sample of people being credibly accused of murder is an extremely high percentage if it is not in a prison context or other context involving violent felons.

I do not want it to be lost on us that a lovely woman is tragically deceased when she should not be. And was disrespectfully dumped in the desert. Those dogs miss their human mother. Her family and friends miss her horribly, and want her to be here. And the 19-year-old woman in the mugshot looks chillingly evil. Her eyes look vacuous, demented, and indifferent. As if she is saying, "Yeah, I may have killed her, I may not have. So? Y'all be wasting my time."

*****

But part of me wishes that Sergio Leone or someone like that would've come up with a character named Chance Comanche in one of those Spaghetti Westerns. It's just a name meant for a villain in a western movie, although our lumbering, fake-mustached hooper creep of the hour is now a real-life western villain, alongside the aforementioned dead-eyed sidekick. But now it's a fact that those movie people definitely missed their Chance.

Wouldn't it have been great to see Clint Eastwood walk up to a hypothetical Chance Comanche character in a scowl-filled stare-down so that they could duke it out to see who the best shooter is in the west?

That also means two things!

I have also heard that Stockton, California is a depressing place to live. Or can be, I guess. Which brings a question to mind: why does Stockton, California have a minor league basketball team? Answer: because the NBA gave Stockton an assist.

"Leave me out of this, you insensitive slimeball!"

*****

Anyways, one development here is pretty grisly. It looks like Last Chance Buffoon is singing like a canary about what he and Scowl-puff Girl did that day.

Comanche said he posed as a “trick” to schedule a meeting with Rodgers “under the direction” of Harnden, according to the arrest report. Comanche reportedly told Rodgers he was into “kinky sex” and wanted to tie both women up in the car.

Harnden reportedly agreed to the encounter, believing she would be paid $1,000, allowing Comanche to zip-tie her hands together. Comanche told police he then strangled Rodgers with an HDMI cord while Harnden choked the victim with her hands.

Comanche and Harnden reportedly dumped Rodgers’ body in a ditch on the side of Vincenzo Lane in Henderson, covering her body with rocks. Investigators located Rodgers’ remains after Comanche pointed out the location of the body on a map, according to the arrest report.

Harnden was arrested in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The FBI apprehended Comanche at the Stockton Kings’ practice facility in Sacramento on Friday, the same day he was released by the Kings.

Report: Kings G League player Chance Comanche admits shocking details in Las Vegas murder

Former Sacramento Kings G League player Chance Comanche has reportedly confessed to his role in the murder of a woman in Las Vegas.

www.yahoo.com

An HDMI cord and Harnden's bare hands double-choking the woman. Holy crap, that's an especially violent way to kill someone.

And, from a basketball standpoint, Comanche played in three games for the G League's Stockton Kings after allegedly murdering a woman brutally. What are his teammates thinking about the situation, knowing they played alongside him? What do players of the opposing teams think about having played against a murderer? What do the fans who remembered observing Chance think about the games they saw now that this information is out?

Chance has appeared in court on December 19, and is due within 30 days to be extradited to Las Vegas.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article283252163.html

*****

But I do feel that I must reassure you about something, reader. Because of the fact that Chance Not the Rapper and Broodhilda von Shawty* have an overabundance of terrible hair, please do not instinctually respond by gouging out or pouring bleach on your eyes. Please don't do that. Because beautiful hair still exists, and you need your eyes to observe it and perhaps wish to emulate it someday. Below are pictures of WNBA players Candace Parker, Rae Burrell, Rebecca Allen, and Nneka Ogwumike, respectively, sporting excellent hair. (EDIT: I know I've done a similar post in the past, but that one had a different emphasis.)

Eh, what the hell? Joakim Noah works too.

Yes, all very good examples of hair done right. They're good palate cleansers from the visual trauma inflicted on all of us by all those tentacle-like braids cropping out of Chance's head for no legitimate reason. And the existence of excellent hair is why you should not pursue a Salvador Dalliance into slicing your eyes open.

You all better believe that I'm going to follow the hell out of this story as it develops!!!!!!

*Her friends refer to her using the nickname of A.O. Shawty. She is completely chill about men randomly blurting out the phrase to her. Chance did that once, hence how she ended up with a Chance-in-Her-Pants. I may recycle the phrase "A.O. Shawty" for a future post, because I have a specific other person in mind for that.

 

[Sejanus]

Fuktard looks like he has a deflated octopus on his head.
He longs to be a gangsta so achingly...it is sad yet funny.
His neck needs to be a few inches longer.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Chance Comanche, 27, confessed that he was helping his ex-girlfriend, Sakari Harnden, 19, with the gruesome murder of Marayna Rodgers on Dec. 6, while he was in the area “between team activities,” according to Las Vegas police records obtained by KCRA.

Rodgers, a 23-year-old from Lakewood, Wash., had traveled to Sin City on Dec. 1 with a friend with the “intent to engage in prostitution.”

That same night, Harnden began seeking her ex-beau’s help after there were reported issues between her and Rodgers.

Harnden and Rodgers, who both worked as prostitutes in the Vegas area, argued over a Rolex as Rodgers threatened to “smoke” Harnden if she didn’t give her the watch.

Comanche and Harnden then decided to kill Rodgers when they failed to hire a hitman for $3,000.

They discussed several different ways to commit the murder, which included poisoning, strangulation and a gun.

“I can snap her neck or just strangle the bitch,” Comanche allegedly wrote in a group message among Harnden and a third man, who had contact with someone who could get Rodgers “chipped.” “If you get a nice little thick piece of rope or sum sturdy I can do it from the backseat. Like how the killers do it in the movies.”

Harnden and Rodgers had also got into an altercation on Dec. 4, after she allegedly implicated Rodgers’ boyfriend in a double murder in California, which led to the man’s arrest.

Comanche met Harnden through a dating app, a year and a half ago, and broke up after a few months of dating.

The two remained in touch following their breakup.

Rodgers was lured to her death by Comanche and Harnden, who promised her a double date with another man, and to meet them at a pre-determined location, according to newly released text messages.

On Dec. 4, Comanche had checked into the M Resort and Casino in Henderson, Nevada, with the Kings, as they were playing a game the next night at the Dollar Loan Center.

Following the Kings’ game, Comanche made his way back to his hotel with the team, before he went back outside and got into Harnden’s car and they drove to meet Rodgers.

After purchasing alcohol, the trio drove to a cul-de-sac near the former house of Comanche’s friend, where they had originally planned to commit the murder.

Harnden had explained to Rodgers that Comanche was the “trick” (a prostitute client) and was “going to pay them for their services,” with Sakari explaining Comanche was into “kinky sex” and wanted to tie them both up, before having sex.

“(Rodgers) agreed and began removing her clothes. (Harnden) removed her clothing and climbed over the center console and straddled (Rodgers’) lap,” the police records read, before adding Comanche had grabbed a bag of plastic zip-ties that were already in the car and handed two to Sakari.

Rodgers willingly had her wrists tied together before Comanche wrapped a cord around her neck while Harnden, still straddling Rodgers, placed her hands on the defenseless woman’s neck.

Comanche told police he used an HDMI cord to choke Rodgers for “10 seconds” and stopped when he heard his victim struggling to breathe, but Harnden continued.

Rodgers then became unresponsive.

Comanche and Harnden checked her pulse and determined she was dead when they saw “fluid coming out of (Rodgers’) mouth.”

The deadly pair pulled over to the side of a road in Henderson, Nevada, and dumped Rodgers’ body in a ditch before covering the body with rocks.

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NBA G-Leaguer Chance Comanche confesses to murdering woman in Vegas with ex-girlfriend as plot revealed in grisly texts

Comanche told police he used an HDMI cord to strangle Rodgers for “10 seconds” and stopped when he heard his victim struggling to breathe.

nypost.com

Rodgers

Harnden

It seems like none of these people deserve any sympathy.

 

[Satanica]

I’ve never been able to watch basketball, because those shoes squeaking drives me crazy.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Hoo-boy, does this story give me so much material or what?

I remember hearing about Chance Comanche before this happened, due to my following of basketball. (Also, his name is pretty distinctive and memorable.) He played 21 minutes of a single game for the Portland Trail Blazers in 2022-23, the final game of the season, where he scored seven points, three rebounds, and a block. They faced off against the Golden State Warriors, whose team was fully staffed and using their tried and true Curry-Thompson-Green-Looney quartet, hoping to secure a playoff position and escape needing to participate in the play-in round. Meanwhile, the Blazers were in the "*hands raised in frustration* I give up, whatever" phase, and were prioritizing giving NBA experience to G League players and benchwarmers; whereas, the team's playoff hopes were dashed by this point. Their star player Damian Lillard had, for a while now, been shut down for the season after playing only 58 games, and it turned out that he had already played his final game for the Blazers before eventually getting traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. (Side note: the word "Bucks" at the end of that sentence has a zigzag red underline. What the hell is that all about? Somehow, the second iteration of the word, inside this parenthetical passage, doesn't have that, even though both are spelled the same way and the correct way.)

The result of the game was that the Trail Blazers lost by 56 points! That is the second worst loss in Blazers franchise history, as well as tied for 13th worst loss in NBA history. And the Warriors made it into the Western Conference's sixth place, barely moving past the need to do a play-in game.

Also, Comanche is among the likes of Slavko Vranes, Carl Bailey, and Bill Stricker as NBA players whose entire career consisted of one game for the Trail Blazers.

Not only that, but in the aforementioned 56-point blowout, 11% of all Trail Blazers who played in that game have been charged with murder. Okay, sure, only nine Blazers played in that game, and Comanche is the only one of those nine to have this legal trouble, but one ninth of any sample of people being credibly accused of murder is an extremely high percentage if it is not in a prison context or other context involving violent felons.

I do not want it to be lost on us that a lovely woman is tragically deceased when she should not be. And was disrespectfully dumped in the desert. Those dogs miss their human mother. Her family and friends miss her horribly, and want her to be here. And the 19-year-old woman in the mugshot looks chillingly evil. Her eyes look vacuous, demented, and indifferent. As if she is saying, "Yeah, I may have killed her, I may not have. So? Y'all be wasting my time."

*****

But part of me wishes that Sergio Leone or someone like that would've come up with a character named Chance Comanche in one of those Spaghetti Westerns. It's just a name meant for a villain in a western movie, although our lumbering, fake-mustached hooper creep of the hour is now a real-life western villain, alongside the aforementioned dead-eyed sidekick. But now it's a fact that those movie people definitely missed their Chance.

Wouldn't it have been great to see Clint Eastwood walk up to a hypothetical Chance Comanche character in a scowl-filled stare-down so that they could duke it out to see who the best shooter is in the west?

That also means two things!

I have also heard that Stockton, California is a depressing place to live. Or can be, I guess. Which brings a question to mind: why does Stockton, California have a minor league basketball team? Answer: because the NBA gave Stockton an assist.

"Leave me out of this, you insensitive slimeball!"

*****

Anyways, one development here is pretty grisly. It looks like Last Chance Buffoon is singing like a canary about what he and Scowl-puff Girl did that day.

Report: Kings G League player Chance Comanche admits shocking details in Las Vegas murder

Former Sacramento Kings G League player Chance Comanche has reportedly confessed to his role in the murder of a woman in Las Vegas.

www.yahoo.com

An HDMI cord and Harnden's bare hands double-choking the woman. Holy crap, that's an especially violent way to kill someone.

And, from a basketball standpoint, Comanche played in three games for the G League's Stockton Kings after allegedly murdering a woman brutally. What are his teammates thinking about the situation, knowing they played alongside him? What do players of the opposing teams think about having played against a murderer? What do the fans who remembered observing Chance think about the games they saw now that this information is out?

Chance has appeared in court on December 19, and is due within 30 days to be extradited to Las Vegas.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article283252163.html

*****

But I do feel that I must reassure you about something, reader. Because of the fact that Chance Not the Rapper and Broodhilda von Shawty* have an overabundance of terrible hair, please do not instinctually respond by gouging out or pouring bleach on your eyes. Please don't do that. Because beautiful hair still exists, and you need your eyes to observe it and perhaps wish to emulate it someday. Below are pictures of WNBA players Candace Parker, Rae Burrell, Rebecca Allen, and Nneka Ogwumike, respectively, sporting excellent hair. (EDIT: I know I've done a similar post in the past, but that one had a different emphasis.)

Eh, what the hell? Joakim Noah works too.

Yes, all very good examples of hair done right. They're good palate cleansers from the visual trauma inflicted on all of us by all those tentacle-like braids cropping out of Chance's head for no legitimate reason. And the existence of excellent hair is why you should not pursue a Salvador Dalliance into slicing your eyes open.

You all better believe that I'm going to follow the hell out of this story as it develops!!!!!!

*Her friends refer to her using the nickname of A.O. Shawty. She is completely chill about men randomly blurting out the phrase to her. Chance did that once, hence how she ended up with a Chance-in-Her-Pants. I may recycle the phrase "A.O. Shawty" for a future post, because I have a specific other person in mind for that.

I never saw Joakim Noah with his hair down before. I like it. I used to work with a guy who knew his mother Cecelia.

 

[Sejanus]

Fake girls.
Fake tiddays.
Likely a fake Rolex.