ROCKFORD MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED IN INDIANA

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Jody P. Weis, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (CPD); and Thomas Dart, Cook County Sheriff, announced today the arrest of CHARLES KNIGHT, age 45, whose last known address was in Bolingbrook, Illinois. KNIGHT was arrested earlier this week, without incident, by members of the Chicago FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force (VCTF) in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Special Agents from the FBI’s Indianapolis office also assisted with the arrest.

KNIGHT has been the subject of a nationwide manhunt, coordinated by the Chicago FBI, since May of 2005, when he was charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago with Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution (UFAP), which is a felony offense.

KNIGHT was wanted by the Rockford Police Department for the April 27, 2005 murder of Joshua Irwin, a 21-year old Rockford resident who was shot multiple times outside a pizza restaurant, located at 2506 Auburn Street in Rockford. KNIGHT is also a suspect in the December 2007 armed robbery of the Silo Restaurant in Lake County, Illinois, during which two employees of the restaurant were wounded.

Subsequent investigation by the VCTF in Chicago developed information which eventually led to the location and arrest of KNIGHT.

KNIGHT remains in custody in Ft. Wayne, Indiana awaiting extradition to Illinois.

The Chicago FBI’s VCTF is comprised of FBI Special Agents, Detectives from the CPD and Investigators from the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department.

The public is reminded that a complaint is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

EDITOR’S NOTE: A copy of the complaint filed in this case is available from the Chicago FBI’s press office at (312) 829-1199.

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