The man who was convicted of killing a Grundy County Deputy in 1981 has died in prison.
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The man who was convicted of killing a Grundy County Deputy in 1981 has died in prison.
Kurt Bradley Knight, who was 52, died May 15 at Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston. His obituary in the Neosho Daily News listed the cause of death as an apparent heart attack. Knight was convicted of murder in the Jan. 30, 1981 shooting death of Grundy County Deputy Mark Griffin. Griffin and Don Altes, who was also a deputy at the time, had gone to a house on Seventh Street to talk with an occupant about an earlier disturbance. Knight shot both deputies, wounding Altes in the shoulder and killing Griffin. Knight then took hostages and was able to get around a roadblock using false identification before being apprehended in Cameron later that evening. He was serving a 50-year sentence without the possibility of parole.