Denver Lawyer, Wife and Daughter
Shot To Death By Ex-Con Relative
DENVER, iff) — A wealthy law-1
yer, his wife and daughter were
killed Friday night by a n’er-do
well relative, bent on getting
money four days after his re
lease from prison.
David F. Early, 28, was caught
by neighbors moments after the
rifle shootings climaxed a four
hour reign of terror in the ranch
style home' of Merrill A. Knight
in swank Greenwood Village.
The suburb is 14 miles south
east of downtown Denver.
Knight, 45, former president
of the Denver Bar Assn, his wife,
Regina, 43, and their 15-year-old
daughter Karen died in Early’s
futile efforts to flee with $187.
Kenneth Knight, 18, son of the
lawyer, escaped although Early
fired one shot at him.
Early was freed from the
Leavenworth, Kan., federal pris
on last Tuesday.
Early, whb described himself
as a nephew of Knight’s, had
served aggravated robbery terms
at Leavenworth and Canon City,
Colorado, prisons. It was not
known immediately whether he
was paroled or released from the
prison.
This was the sequence of
events, told Sheriff Charles
Foster: Early came to Denver
after his release from the Kansas
prison and registered at the
YMCA.
About noon Friday he had a
taxicab take him to the Knight
residence. No one was home,
but he entered through a base
ment door. He waited about two
and a half hours until Mrs.
Knight returned.
Early brandished a .22 caliber
rifle and forced her to her bed
room where he bound her hands
and feet. Mrs. Knight told him
to get $60 from her purse. „ |
Early wanted more money and 1
decided to await Knight’s return
from work. Meanwhile, the
Children, Karen and Kenneth re
turned from school. Early forced
Karen into her bedroom and tied
her up, the same as her mother.
Kenneth was also bound with
silk stockings in his mother’s
room, at the foot of her bed.
Knight returned home about
5:30 or 5:45 p.m. Early forced Mrs.
Knight to call to him and when
he entered her bedroom Early
threatened him with the gun and
forced him to his bedroom.
Knight was ordered to bind
his feet with gauze. Early then
bound Knight’s hands after taking
$127 from his wallet.
Early delayed his departure
waiting for darkness, during that
period he walked from room to
room checking on the four bound
persons.
On a visit to Knight’s room he
said Knight lunged at me and
without thinking I started shoot
ing. Knight was wounded three
times. He died later in a hos
pital.
Early then decided to kill the
others in bed because they were
witnesses.
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