A Tarrant County attorney is shot to death inside her own home, and her alleged killer is behind bars.
On Monday night, police in Saginaw found Kimberly Knapp, 46, on a bed with a single gunshot wound to the chest.
She was rushed to JPS, but she didn't survive.
Saginaw Police say at first, it appeared that Knapp had shot herself; but upon further investigation, they arrested Rance Magby, 32, and have charged him with murder.
A press release by the Saginaw Police Department states that Magby was the "only other occupant of the residence." It's unclear whether that means he had lived there or was there at the time of the killing.
Knapp was the senior partner of Knapp Begley Law, PLLC, a Fort Worth-based criminal law firm.
"It's been surreal, the whole thing has been surreal," says longtime friend James Whitfield, the former principal of Colleyville Heritage High school. "We go in and out of moments of this isn't real, this didn't happen."
Whitfield says Knapp would go out of her way to help her friends, alluding to a gesture during the early days of his relationship with the woman who is now his wife.
"I was out of town on a trip that I had to do for work," says Whitfield, "and Kim called me and she was like, 'I know Kerrie (then-girlfriend) is sick,' and Kim was like, 'I'm just going to go over there and I'm gonna take her into the doctor.'"
Some people on social media have identified Magby as Knapp's boyfriend; KRLD has reached out to the Saginaw Police Department for clarification on Magby's relationship with Knapp and whether the two had lived together.
No bond has been set for Magby at this time.
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