Suspected of a quadruple assassination in Moscow in Idaho, Bryan Kohberger is a doctoral student in criminology and criminal law. The mobile was not revealed by the police, who arrested him in Pennsylvania.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
A news item that has been going on the United States for a month and a half may have found its conclusion. A young man, suspected of having killed four students in a small university town in the West of the United States, was indeed arrested on Friday December 30 and charged for “assassinations”, announced local authorities.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, was arrested in Pennsylvania, more than 4,000 kilometers from the small town of Moscow in Idaho, theater on November 13 of this crime which aroused a lot of speculation.
Graduated from the Washington State University, the suspect has housing in Pullman, about ten minutes by car from Moscow, said local police chief James Fry, at a conference Press. According to the University’s website, Bryan Kohberger is a doctoral student in criminology and criminal law.
He was charged for “assassinations” and “intrusion in order to commit a crime”, but the judicial file remains under sealed while waiting for its transfer to Idaho , said prosecutor Bill Thompson. For this reason, the two men refused to evoke a possible mobile and to explain how the investigators had risen to him.
A survey followed on social networks
James Fry only said that a car spotted on the crime scene and wanted for several weeks had been located. According to American media, the police managed to link Bryan Kohberger to this vehicle and found traces of his DNA on the crime scene.
Seven weeks ago, four bodies, lacerated with stabs, had been discovered in a residence in the small university town in Moscow. These were those of four without history: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen – both aged 21 -, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin – 20 years each and in couple. They seemed to have been killed in their sleep, without it waking up their two other roommates.
The investigation, very followed in the media and on social networks, has long seemed to stand, the police delivering their information to droppings. Friday, the police chief admitted that it could have generated “frustration”. But giving too much details “could have alerted the suspect of our progress,” he added.