The shooting unfolded in February 2024 after McKnight’s then-boyfriend, Michael McCoy, 54, attempted to end their one-year relationship and asked her to move out of his home.
McKnight allegedly agreed to go — but later that evening, McCoy was awoken by a “massive head pain” and was blind. During the trial, he testified that he couldn’t see after the shooting but that McKnight was the only other person home at the time.
Police said that McKnight called 911 and that during the call she “could not explain what happened and stated that she was sleeping and heard him screaming.”
Emergency responders rushed McCoy to the hospital, where they found a gunshot wound to the right temple that exited his left temple.
Authorities say the extent of the damage left McCoy blind in his right eye.
A gun registered to McKnight was also found at the scene and she was found to have gunshot residue on her hands only an hour after the shooting. Both McCoy and McKnight told police they were the only ones home at the time of the shooting and McCoy told police he did not shoot himself.
McKnight had a previous altercation with her estranged husband, Enoch McKnight, in 2019 during which she shot him in the groin after asking him to help her move furniture.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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