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JP Morgan Director Julian Knott Killed Wife With Shotgun in Murder-Suicide
It is thought at least eight finance professionals have taken their lives so far this year. They are:
Autumn Radtke, 28, the CEO Bitcoin exchange First Meta, was found dead on 28 February outside her Singapore apartment. She had jumped from a 25-story building, authorities said.
Li Junjie, 33, a JP Morgan employee, leaped to his death from the roof of the company’s 30-story Hong Kong office tower, authorities said. Photos showed Junjie on the building’s roof moments before he jumped.
Li Junjie is thought to have leapt to his death soon after this photo was taken.
Gabriel Magee, 39, an IT vice president at JP Morgan fell to his death from the roof of the bank’s 33-storey office in Canary Wharf on 28 January.
Mike Dueker, 50, a chief economist at Russell Investments, was found dead at the side of a road in Washington State on 31 January.
William Broeksmit, 58, was found hanged at a house in South Kensington, London on 26 January. He was a former senior risk manager at Deutsche Bank.
Richard Talley, the 57-year-old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.
Edmund Reilly, 47, a New York trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, commited suicide by jumping in front of commuter train on 11 March.
‘Lydia’, who leapt to her death from the from a 14-storey window at French bank Bred-Banque-Populaire’s Paris office on 22 April, did so after clashing with bosses.
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JP Morgan director kills his wife, then himself
A bank executive from London shot his wife dead before turning the gun on himself.
Julian Knott, 45, an executive director for JP Morgan, shot 47-year-old Alita repeatedly, police said.
The father-of-three was found dead alongside her in their home in Jefferson Township, New Jersey, on Sunday. He had worked in the City for almost 20 years before moving to the US in December 2012.
In a tribute posted online soon after the bodies were found, their daughter Kayleigh said that the couple were: “now stress-free”.
The university student wrote on her Instagram page: “Although I am heartbroken that they will never see me graduate college … get married or to be grandparents for my children, I can still have inner peace knowing that they are now stress-free in a much better place.”
Referring to her two teenage brothers, Tom and Luke, she wrote: “We will be just fine with our angels watching over us. Rest in peace mummy and daddy, stay close.”
Today Mr Knott’s relatives in Britain said they were still waiting for information about the tragedy.
Murder suicide: Bank executive Julian Knott and wife Alita
Police said they were called to the couple’s home at 1.12am on Sunday and found the bodies. Initial investigations showed the deaths were a result of murder-suicide. The couple met in London 20 years, ago when Philippines-born Mrs Knott was a personal assistant to a Bahraini sheik. They married and settling in Southwick, West Sussex, where Mrs Knott opened nursery school Quayside Tots.
Mr Knott joined JP Morgan as a network services manager in 2001. He moved to New Jersey when he was promoted to be executive director of the global network operations centre. In a biography posted online, Mrs Knott wrote: “After meeting my husband while working in London, I married, had three children and started my own pre-school nursery business, which I still own.”
Alongside a 2012 photo of Mr Knott carrying his wife on a beach, she wrote: “Been married for almost 18 years and love him more now. He is not just my husband, he is my best friend who understands the scatty Filipina I am.”
In a statement, police said: “Preliminary investigation has revealed that the two adults died as a result of gunshot wounds and the incident has been determined to be a murder/suicide. Julian Knott, age 45, shot his wife Alita Knott, age 47, multiple times and then took his own life with the same weapon.”
On Facebook, friend of the couple Reyes Cham Ortega wrote: “I worked with him for only two years but that was enough to know a lot about him and his family. I am still shocked and cannot believe it.”
JP Morgan declined to comment.
