Posted on 02/18/2024 2:24:28 PM PST by george76
Dauphin County Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, 57, is facing a case of modus operandi this week. However, the suspect showing the alleged pattern of criminal conduct is herself. McKnight is accused of shooting her ex-boyfriend in the head while he slept. The shooting took place five years after McKnight was cleared in the shooting of her former husband in the groin.
Michael McCoy, 54, was left blind in one eye and, according to the New York Post, McKnight tried to convince him that he had shot himself while he was sleeping.
The two were living together and McCoy said that he had repeatedly tried to cut off the relationship. Police stated that McCoy came home from a bar and found McKnight relaxing on his couch in her pajamas. McCoy said that he repeated his desire that she leave his house and said that he was going to enlist the help of her mother. According to the report, McKnight then “agreed to go.”
McCoy said that he went to bed around 11:00 p.m. only to wake up later with “massive head pain” and unable to see. He said that McKnight came into the bedroom and asked, “Mike, what did you do to yourself?” McKnight then called police. She told police that she was sleeping on the couch when she heard him screaming.
For an alleged accidental shooting, the shot was remarkably well placed and should have been lethal. The bullet entered McCoy’s right temple and exited his left temple. He is still blinded in his right eye.
Police found a gun registered to McKnight and her hands tested positive for gunshot residue.
McKnight was also accused of lying about her movements. She told police that she did not leave the home but that is contradicted by a neighbor’s security camera. McCoy is reportedly suspicious that the judge may have followed him to the tavern.
McKnight is now suspended from the bench and being held at the Dauphin County Prison on a $300,000 bail. The arrest has brought new attention to the 2019 case.
Her former husband, Enoch McKnight, was shot in the groin after a history of domestic disputes and protective orders. He was helping McKnight move her furniture out of the home when he was shot. She had reportedly asked him to come over to help her. He claimed that she shot him and called him a “cheater.”
It is not clear from accounts of what her defense was in the earlier incident, but no charges were filed. Enoch McKnight had previously pleaded guilty to domestic violence.
Judge McKnight now faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted of a first-degree attempted murder charge.
Another GirlBoss of colour...
Probably about 50% of our population needs to be committed for mental illness.
The scary part is that a lot of people who are insane are in seats of power like this former “judge”.
I’m SHOCKED by the perp!!!!
Looking at that picture, I bet he isn’t regretting losing that eye.
Seems that she was aiming for the head in both shootings.
“I said I want you to leave my house right now!
Do I need to call your Mother about this?”
Hanging is in order......
Yep!
No surprise
is there some reason even Turley doesn’t say she’s a democRAT???
or is she Not, cause i’ll be damned if i can find it anywhere after ten minutes looking
The guy was lucky, one eye and all.
Any chance of a reconciliation?
Qweens that Slay
The elongated cranium, large flat bulbus nose and gigantic lips are a dead give away of someone who snorts a lot of cocaine.
A perfect candidate for District Attorney, Judge, Attorney General or Mayor of a large city.
Yup.
She’s got to be careful.
If she kills another guy, it will be three strikes, and she might actually be going to jail.
There is a female attorney here in Texas who is famous/infamous for shooting husbands, and boyfriends who break up with her because she is a volatile, jealous and vengeful person. I think she even killed a husband, and she supposedly attacked a boyfriend with an umbrella in a knock down-drag out right on a residential street in front of witnesses. A few days later, when he went to her place at her invitation to pick up some of his stuff, she chased him around with a gun and shot him twice when he ran out the door into the yard-he did survive. Her over-the-top tantrums were even the subject of an episode on one of the crime shows. I think her present husband is still alive...
It sound like this judge has been tutored by that Texas attorney...
That look…
I wouldn’t trust her.
Seems there is an epidemic of this stuff these days!
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