A Washington State University graduate student has been arrested Friday afternoon in his home state of Pennsylvania for the murders last month of four University of Idaho students, an attack that has shaken the small western U.S. college town.
Pennsylvania State Police — located in the eastern part of the country — announced the arrest of Bryan Kohberger, 28, at his parents’ home, all after a search that has dragged on for seven weeks, ‘The Washington Post’ has reported.
Kohberger has been charged with four counts of murder as well as one count of burglary, Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson told a news conference in Idaho.
According to the police investigation, which has taken police to the opposite side of the country — specifically 4,000 miles away — Kohberger allegedly stabbed the four young men on Nov. 13, 2022, on the University of Idaho campus.
The events prompted the university to increase security and offer a remote learning option for the remainder of the semester, CNN has learned.
However, the motives that would have motivated Kohberger to carry out the alleged murder are not known at this time, nor if he had any kind of relationship with the young people. It is only known that he was a student at the university in the state of Washington, about 15 kilometers from Moscow, the town where the campus of the University of Idaho is located.
The FBI and Idaho State Police have been working in cooperation with Moscow Police to investigate more than 19,000 leads as they pursued the person who killed Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, 20, and Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, in their sleep.
An autopsy conducted by the Latah County Coroner’s Office later revealed that each student was stabbed multiple times and that some showed signs of having tried to fight off their attacker.
These attacks have sent shockwaves through the country and the small university town of Moscow, its first murder in seven years, according to the network.
The case has generated fear and anxiety in the community and the student body, while raising questions about the pace of the police investigation, which has spent seven weeks searching for the main suspect.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
