CHARLOTTE — Someone attacked a homicide suspect Thursday morning outside a Mecklenburg County courtroom.
Marion McKnight is accused of killing Jamariyae Dixon in June 2025.
He’s been out of jail since November after Judge Daniel Kuehnert granted a $100,000 secured bond. The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s was attempting to revoke his bond Thursday.
A nonprofit that works with victims’ families said Dixon’s father attacked McKnight.
The nonprofit, M.A.R.C.U.S., said, “The emotional eruption that occurred in the courthouse hallway was not the act of a violent man, but the breaking point of a grieving father who has endured unimaginable loss, public humiliation, and a justice process that has repeatedly failed to protect his family.”
Channel 9’s Joe Bruno was in the courthouse when the scuffle happened.
I’m inside the Meck County courthouse where there was a fight on the fifth floor. An arrest was made. Someone left on a the stretcher. Some blood got on the floor so the cleaning crew is on scene. Fifth floor is where homicide cases are being heard today. Families, suspects,…
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 19, 2026
Two people were taken out on stretchers and blood was cleaned from the hallway floor.
Blood also got on an attorney’s shirt after he tried to break up the fight.
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