Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
We have used your information to see if you have a subscription with us, but did not find one. Please use the button below to verify an existing account or to purchase a new subscription.
Your current subscription does not provide access to this content. Please use the button below to manage your account.
Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
Please purchase a subscription to continue reading.
Your current subscription does not provide access to this content.
Mostly cloudy this evening with showers developing after midnight. Low 64F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%..
Mostly cloudy this evening with showers developing after midnight. Low 64F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.
Updated: May 3, 2024 @ 11:43 pm
The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating a 1998 homicide “cold case” and is seeking the public’s help.
Larry Gray Knighten, 40, was fatally shot at his home on Mount Willen Road in southeastern Alamance County about 11 p.m. on Dec. 4, 1998.
The sheriff’s office did not release any other information in its announcement, but in 1998 officials said that more than one person came to the front door of Knighten’s house, and he opened the door for them. Knighten then was shot twice in the leg and hit over head with a blunt object.
The gunshot wounds were listed as the official cause of death.
Knighten’s wife, Rebecca, was home at the time and ran to a neighbor’s house to call for help, officials said at the time.
Investigators found a phone beside Knighten’s body with the cord pulled from the wall, but they did not know whether the line snapped during a struggle or it was intentionally pulled from the wall.
Investigators said in December 1998 that some local residents were being investigated as possible suspects, but no arrests were made.
Detectives are asking that anyone with information about the shooting call the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office or Alamance County Crime Stoppers and help bring closure to Knighten’s family.
You may call the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office at 336-570-6300.
You may call Crime Stoppers at 336-229-7100.
