(Long Island, NY) Last evening, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced the indictment of murder suspect Brett Knight, 45, arrested for the September 24 murder in Setauket of equestrian Ross Reisner.
District Attorney Spota said Knight will be arraigned today, Wednesday, October 23, in Suffolk County criminal court in Riverhead.
County Judge Richard Ambro will unseal the indictment.
Knight fired 11 times through a window of Reisner’s home on Upper Sheep Pasture Road, killing him. One of the bullets grazed the forearm of Reisner’s partner of 26 years, Kevin Murray.
Knight was their former tenant, moving into the couple’s basement apartment in 2009, DA Spota said.
Knight was picked up by Suffolk County police homicide detectives, the U.S. Marshals and the Sevier County sheriff’s office in Seymour, Tennessee and extradited on October 10.
District Attorney Spota said two handguns were recovered from the defendant’s bedroom.
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