A suspect was arrested after 47 days in the mass murder of four University of Idaho students while sleeping in their own home.
The suspect was a criminology PhD graduate student at a neighboring university, and was arrested in his home state of Pennsylvania.
According to major American media outlets such as the Associated Press, Police Commissioner James Fry of Moscow City, Idaho, held a press conference and explained the situation of the investigation.
According to police, the suspect is a 28-year-old man named Brian Christopher Korberger.
Prosecutor Bill Thompson of Ratha County, Wash., said Korberger appeared to have broken into the homes of the dead victims with murderous intent.
Koberger is known to be accused of killing five University of Idaho students with a weapon after breaking into a three-story rental house near the school where five students live on the morning of November 13.
The details of the allegations are expected to be released after the trial is held on the 3rd of next month and Koburger is brought under pressure.
The four victims who died were aged 20 and 21, three female and one male.
An autopsy revealed that they were asleep at the time of the attack.
Two of the dead victims were lovers and her boyfriend was living elsewhere.
Suspect Koberger entered the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Washington State University (WSU) in Pullman, Washington, as a doctoral student in August of this year, and is also serving as a teaching assistant (TA).
Washington State University and the University of Idaho are located close by, less than a 10-minute drive away, so there are frequent exchanges between students and faculty.
However, it is known that there is no record of Koburger taking classes or participating in seminars at the University of Idaho.
Koberger graduated from the two-year Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania in 2018, received a bachelor's degree in 2020 from DeSells University, a private Catholic Salesian affiliated university, and completed graduate studies in June 2022.
Moscow, home to the University of Idaho, is a small rural town with a population of about 25,000.
Anxiety spread as the murder investigation went through difficulties for a while and no suspect was identified for several weeks, during which half of the university's 11,000 students left Moscow to take online lectures.
The investigation, which had not progressed for a while, started to accelerate when a suspicious vehicle near the crime scene was revealed on the 7th.
When the police released investigative information that a white Hyundai Elantra sedan was parked near the crime scene, citizens asked for help in finding the car. We were able to pick out a car believed to have been used in
Police said they were putting together all the clues, saying they were still looking for the weapon and that the motive was unknown.
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