Overview

• Steven McKnight Jr., 25, was arrested July 24 at his Zion home by Lake County sheriff’s deputies and SWAT officers and remains held pending an August 7 court hearing.
• He faces charges including two counts of aggravated DUI causing death, four counts of aggravated DUI causing bodily harm, one count of reckless homicide, one count of endangering the life of a child causing death.
• Investigators concluded he was driving under the influence of marijuana when he recklessly crossed into oncoming lanes on Green Bay Road on November 26, 2024, triggering a head-on collision.
• Neither of McKnight’s sons was restrained at the time of the crash, with the two-year-old riding on his lap and the five-year-old unbelted in the back seat.
• The collision killed five-year-old Sy’mere McKnight, critically injured his younger brother and seriously harmed an uninvolved Pleasant Prairie motorist.