A Pennsylvania judge faced a reckoning on Wednesday. Sonya McKnight, a magistrate in Dauphin County, was convicted of attempted homicide. She shot her ex-boyfriend in the head as he slept.
McKnight is a registered Democrat. Ballotpedia lists her as a Democrat in her 2015 election record. This detail has been largely glossed over in reports of the incident, including the one from Fox News.
The shooting took place in February 2024. McKnight, 58, shot Michael McCoy at his Harrisburg home. The couple had ended their one-year relationship.
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McCoy survived the attack. The gunshot left him blind in one eye. He testified that he did not shoot himself.
McKnight denied the charges. Her attorney, Cory Leshner, argued McCoy couldn’t identify the shooter. Prosecutors countered that only
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