Judge sentenced for shooting her ex in the head while he was sleeping after he allegedly told her to move out

CARLISLE, Pa. (TCN) -- A district judge has resigned and will spend time behind bars for trying to kill her ex-boyfriend after he reportedly broke up with her.

On May 28, Sonya McKnight received a sentence of 13 1/2 to 30 years in prison for shooting Michael McCoy in the head, WHP-TV reports. A jury found her guilty in April of attempted murder and aggravated assault.

According to prosecutors, in the early morning hours of Feb. 10, 2024, McKnight shot the victim in the head at his home while he was sleeping in bed. The bullet reportedly went through the right side of his head and exited the left side. The district attorney’s office said the shooting left him blind in one eye, but he survived.

McCoy allegedly woke up that night and felt "excruciating pain" and believed he was experiencing a brain aneurysm. Medical experts testified and said McCoy would have likely had a different outcome had the bullet traveled another path.

McCoy had ended their relationship shortly before the shooting and asked the defendant multiple times to move out. On the night of Feb. 9, 2024, McCoy reportedly came home from dinner and saw McKnight on his couch in her pajamas. He allegedly told McKnight he planned to call her mother to help move her belongings, and he thought it felt like "she finally understood" their relationship was over.

According to WHP, during the trial, McCoy testified and said the last thing McKnight said to him before the shooting was, "Oh, so you’re serious."

In a statement obtained by the Patriot-News, Senior Judge Howard Knisely said that McKnight "is totally without remorse for pulling the trigger, to delaying her response to massive bleeding, to calling 911."

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