Deputies said a wounded man identified Michael Jason Knight after an encounter outside a southwest Miami-Dade home.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A late-night request for money escalated into a stabbing that left one man critically injured and another jailed on an attempted murder charge, according to an arrest affidavit and reports citing the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

Michael Jason Knight, 49, was arrested after deputies responded at about 10:35 p.m. on Thursday, July 2, to a home in the unincorporated Princeton area of southwest Miami-Dade County. Authorities said the victim accused Knight of stabbing him in the left arm after he refused to give Knight money. Knight later made an unexplained statement about the encounter and became uncooperative at a sheriff’s office station, according to the reports. The charge is an allegation, and the available records do not establish that Knight has been convicted.

The emergency call that brought deputies to the neighborhood described a man who was bleeding and appeared to be dead, according to the arrest report as described by Local 10 News and Law&Crime. The reports placed the incident in the 26300 block of Southwest 135th Avenue, within or near the Twin Lakes condominium complex. The address was described as Knight’s home in the Local 10 account, while the other report said deputies found the victim near the front door of a residence. Authorities have not publicly explained why the victim was there or how long the men had been together before the confrontation.

Deputies arrived to find the injured man on the ground near the entrance, bleeding heavily from a wound to his arm, the reports said. A knife was recovered from the ground beside him. Law&Crime, citing the affidavit, reported that the weapon was near a pool of blood. Those details describe what deputies said they observed when they reached the scene, but the publicly available accounts do not say whether the knife was tested, whether fingerprints or biological evidence were collected, or whether investigators obtained surveillance video from the property.

Paramedics took the victim to Jackson South Medical Center for emergency treatment, according to Local 10. Law&Crime reported that he was considered critically injured but stable after being hospitalized. No later medical update was included in the reports reviewed for this article. His name was not released, and the public accounts do not identify his age, place of residence or relationship to Knight. The absence of those details limits what can be said about the circumstances that brought the two men together that night. The victim was able to speak with investigators and identified Knight as the person who attacked him, authorities said. He told deputies that Knight came to the door and asked for money. When the victim refused, Knight became angry, produced a knife and wounded him in the arm, according to the accounts of the arrest report. The available material does not state how much money Knight allegedly requested, why he wanted it or whether the men had discussed money before that evening.

A second person inside the home intervened during the confrontation, according to deputies. That person took the knife away from Knight and called 911, the reports said. Officials have not publicly identified the person or described that witness’s relationship to either man. It also remains unclear whether the witness saw the entire exchange, heard only part of it or entered the area after the confrontation had begun. The witness’s intervention nevertheless appears to have ended the immediate danger before deputies arrived.

While investigators were working at the scene, Knight allegedly said, “We were just kissing,” according to the arrest report quoted by both news organizations. Neither account explains what prompted the comment or whether deputies had asked Knight a question before he made it. Authorities did not describe the statement as a confession or provide any evidence connecting it to the victim’s account. The reports also do not say whether the victim confirmed or disputed any suggestion of intimate contact.

Deputies took Knight to a sheriff’s office station for an interview, but the questioning did not produce a publicly reported explanation of the stabbing allegation. According to the arrest report, Knight began urinating on a table and the floor inside an interview room and then became uncooperative. The reports do not say whether investigators believed alcohol, drugs, illness or another condition affected his behavior. No medical assessment, toxicology result or statement from a defense attorney was available in the reviewed material.

Knight was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and was reported held without bond as of the morning of July 6. Public jail-search services maintained by Miami-Dade County can display a detainee’s location, charges, booking information and bond status, but a current individual record was not available through the material reviewed for this article. No later court date, plea, charging document from prosecutors or attorney information could be independently confirmed. An arrest affidavit generally records the facts that officers relied on to establish probable cause for an arrest. It is not a finding of guilt, and its allegations can be challenged as a criminal case moves through court. Prosecutors must separately decide which formal charge or charges to pursue. The public reports described Knight’s booking charge as attempted murder, but they did not specify whether authorities were alleging attempted premeditated murder, attempted second-degree murder or attempted felony murder under a particular Florida statute.

That distinction could become important because Florida law recognizes different forms of attempted homicide, each with its own required elements. Florida’s attempted felony murder statute addresses intentional acts committed during certain felonies that could have caused death but did not. The news accounts, however, do not identify the exact statutory subsection attached to Knight’s booking or explain the prosecution’s legal theory. It therefore would be premature to assign a degree, potential sentence or required proof beyond the charge wording reported by authorities.

The physical location and the basic sequence are among the few points clearly reflected across both published accounts: deputies were summoned to a southwest Miami-Dade home, found a man with a serious arm wound, recovered a knife, obtained an identification from the victim and arrested Knight. Other matters remain unsettled, including the men’s relationship, what occurred immediately before the request for money, whether the encounter was recorded and what Knight intended when he allegedly used the knife.

The reported remark about kissing drew attention because it appeared inconsistent with the victim’s account of a money dispute. Standing alone, however, the comment does not resolve what happened. Investigators and prosecutors would ordinarily compare statements with physical evidence, emergency-call recordings, medical findings and witness accounts. None of those materials, apart from the affidavit descriptions relayed by news organizations, was available for independent review.

The victim’s latest condition and Knight’s next scheduled court proceeding had not been publicly detailed in the reviewed reports. Unless additional records are released, the case remains at the allegation stage, with the arrest account providing the principal public description of the encounter.

Author note: Last updated July 31, 2026.