A Hartsburg man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his father in 2022.
25-year-old Collin Knight pleaded guilty in February to second degree murder and was sentenced on Monday by Boone County Circuit Judge Joshua Calvin Devine. Our news partner ABC-17 reports Knight appeared in court virtually from the Boone County jail on Monday.
939 the Eagle News was in Boone County Circuit Court in February, when Boone County assistant prosecutor Susan Boresi amended the charges against Knight. She dropped the first degree murder and armed criminal action charges that day and Knight pleaded guilty to second degree murder. Collin Knight has admitted in open court that he stabbed his father to death at a home on South Old Route A in the Hartsburg area. The father was stabbed more than 15 times.
Judge Devine has also revoked Knight’s probation for two 2019 convictions for felony domestic assault. That sentence will run concurrent to the life prison sentence for second degree murder.
Under Missouri law, Collin Knight must serve at least 85 percent of his 30-year prison sentence before he’ll be eligible for parole.