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EXCLUSIVE: Family, Friends of Murder Suspects Speak

277 views · Published 9 February 2015 · 1:42 · Indexed 7 October 2026

Channel: NBC 15 · 2015 · News & Politics

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MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) Local 15's Stephen Quinn spoke to family and friends of Chrisopher Knapp. Knapp and Summer Everett are charged with murder and aggravated child abuse in the death of 20-month-old Dakota Burke, Everett's daughter.

Knapp and Everett are married.

The two were granted bond Friday morning: $150,000 each on the murder charge ($10,000 must be cash) and $10,000 each on the aggravated child abuse charge ($1,000 must be in cash). Local 15's Christian Jennings was in court for the bond hearing. CLICK HERE to see her report.

About a dozen family and friends sat inside the courtroom Friday as a show of support to the young man they say has been demonized by the District Attorney and the media. They say he is innocent.

Defense attorneys say Knapp and Everett cooperated with authorities, a point which prosecutors took exception to. Prosecutors also argued that Dakota showed signs of bruising that occurred more than a month ago, a point Quinn asked Knapp's cousin about following the hearing.

"All I'm gonna say this and this is all I'm gonna say, Dakota was a fun-loving girl. I was around her, there was no abuse. I don't care what anyone says. that's all I got to say," the woman said.

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