- Police arrested a suspect in connection to the killings of 4 Idaho college students.
- The gruesome deaths went unsolved for over a month and garnered national attention.
- Police say the four students were each stabbed multiple times at off-campus housing on Nov. 13.
Police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection to the November 13 killings of four University of Idaho undergraduate students.
Police say Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, were each stabbed multiple times in an early morning ambush at an off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. Their deaths have shocked and baffled the small community where they lived.
Bryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday and will be extradited back to Idaho, the Associated Press reported. Arrest documents filed in Monroe County and seen by the AP said that the suspect is being held on a warrant for first-degree murder.
Washington State University, which is a 10-minute drive from the University of Idaho, lists Kohberger as a PH.D student.
The Moscow Police Department in Idaho declined to comment on the arrest, referring Insider to a press conference Friday afternoon.
Shock and fear
Moscow Police previously said that the victims — four friends at the University of Idaho — were killed with an "edged weapon" such as a knife at their off-campus housing less than a mile from the university.
Police had responded to a call about an unconscious person in the small town of Moscow when they found the students dead.
When news of the killings spread, the community was driven to grief and fear. Vigils were held on campus, and some students and community members left the area.
Latah County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Mikolajczyk told the Idaho Statesman that people were "getting out of Dodge" after the attack.
The mystery garnered national attention, with people around the country questioning how anyone could walk away from such a gruesome homicide scene undetected for so long.
"I've been here a long time and stuff like this doesn't happen often in Moscow," Mikolajczyk, a 28-year department veteran, told the Statesman at the time. "It has every once in a while, and I think this is probably one of the worst."