A suspended Pennsylvania choose was arrested on Thursday and accused of taking pictures her ex-boyfriend within the head after he requested her to maneuver out a number of occasions.
Dauphin County Magisterial District Choose Sonya M. McKnight, 57, is charged with tried homicide and aggravated assault of her ex, Michael McCoy, who was shot whereas in mattress of his Harrisburg house on Feb. 10, in line with an affidavit obtained by JHB.
In response to the Related Press, McKnight had been suspended in November for unrelated misconduct.
The affidavit states that McKnight known as 911 to report her ex-boyfriend, McCoy, “couldn’t see” and requested if an ambulance might come and get him. Police mentioned McKnight didn’t inform 911 dispatchers what occurred and claimed she was sleeping and heard him scream.
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Responding officers arrived on the scene and located McCoy was alive, however had sustained a gunshot wound to the face subsequent to his proper eye, the affidavit learn. In response to the doc, neither McCoy nor McKnight instructed officers what precisely occurred, in addition to McCoy stating, “I didn’t shoot myself.”
Investigators quickly found that McCoy had not too long ago damaged up with McKnight, ending a one-year relationship. In response to the affidavit, McKnight was dwelling with McCoy full-time whereas they had been collectively.
Police mentioned McCoy eliminated his home keys from McKnight’s key ring on Feb. 4 after he “tried quite a few occasions” to get her to go away, however she refused.
The following day, McCoy was shocked when he discovered McKnight inside his house after coming back from work.
“He instantly yells at her asking: What’s she doing there? How did she get into the house? Why is she there?” the affidavit learn.
McKnight instructed McCoy that she took his spare keys, in line with the affidavit.
In response to the affidavit, McCoy returned house from work once more on Feb. 9 to seek out his ex sitting on his sofa carrying pajamas. The 2 started to argue, and McCoy then left. McKnight known as McCoy to ask the place he was going, however he ignored most of her calls and texts as a result of “they had been broke up and he didn’t must” reply, the affidavit learn.
After McCoy rejected one try McKnight made to speak, she responded “Oh, you’re critical?” It was at this level, McCoy instructed police, “it was like she lastly understood that it was over.” McKnight went to mattress.
McCoy instructed police he by no means heard a gunshot or noise, however wakened with “huge head ache” and was unable to see. In response to the doc, McCoy started screaming and solely heard McKnight say,“Mike, what did you do to your self?”
McKnight then escorted McCoy to the toilet as a result of he couldn’t see and he instructed her to name an ambulance, police mentioned within the affidavit.
McCoy was “shocked” when emergency medical companies knowledgeable him that he suffered a single gunshot wound, from a bullet that entered the correct temple and exited the left temple, the affidavit learn.
Forensic proof later decided that McCoy sustained a gunshot wound to the top from a foot away and that gunshot residue was later discovered on McKnight’s hand.
An legal professional listed as McKnight’s illustration didn’t instantly reply to JHB’s request for an announcement.
McCoy is just not the primary associate McKnight has been accused of taking pictures. In 2019, she shot her then-husband Enoch McKnight within the groin in 2019 after she requested him to maneuver furnishings, PennLive reported on the time.
No prison fees had been filed towards McKnight in that case, after she mentioned she was performing in self-defense.