Idaho Murders Update: 'Horrifying' Scene Happened Outside Kohberger's House Hours Before Crime
KEY POINTS
- The hit-and-run incident was reported three hours before Kohberger left his home
- Two pedestrians were reportedly seriously injured in the accident
- Kohberger possibly witnessed the crash before leaving his apartment at 2:42 a.m.
Idaho Murders suspect Bryan Kohberger might have passed the police before and after he allegedly committed the crime as authorities were responding to an accident right in front of his home.
The hit-and-run incident was reported at 11:40 p.m. on Nov. 12, just three hours before Kohberger left his home in Pullman, Washington according to a probable cause affidavit released earlier.
Two pedestrians were reportedly seriously injured in the accident, Insider reported.
The outlet reported that Kohberger possibly witnessed the crash before leaving his apartment at 2:42 a.m. on Nov. 13, citing cellular data and traffic-camera footage presented in the affidavit.
Video pulled from Washington State University (WSU) showed a white sedan, later identified as a 2015 Hyundai Elantra, passing by the campus and traveling towards Moscow, Idaho at approximately 2:44 a.m. on the day of the killings.
Turner Gardner, a 26-year-old witness, told Insider that a man had been thrown from the road and a woman lay face-down screaming.
"It was horrifying," Gardner said, as quoted by Insider.
A 19-year-old WSU student named Carmen E. Fernandez was arrested following a manhunt. The student was later charged with vehicular assault and DUI, as per the outlet.
Authorities reportedly blocked the most direct way to Kohberger's home, one of only two ways to access his apartment building.
Kohberger left the Pullman area at around 2:47 a.m. based on cellular data, and later re-appeared near the victims' house at around 4:48 a.m., a police officer wrote in the affidavit.
The cellular data further showed that Kohberger is back in Pullman at around 5:30 a.m.
Witnesses said that the police were still on Kohberger's street responding to the crash at the time, Insider reported.
The 28-year-old suspect in the killings of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, might have passed the police at around noon on Nov. 13, when authorities for the hit-and-run suspect.
Earlier, Moscow Police Officer Brett Payne said in the affidavit that Kohberger had been near the victims' apartment on King Road in Moscow approximately 12 times since June, based on cellular data.
The phone's location on the day of the murders was also reportedly consistent with the movement of the Hyundai White Elantra captured by surveillance videos at the time of the murders.
Kohberger is currently being held without bail in Latah County Jail in Moscow, Idaho, as he faces four first-degree murder charges and one charge of felony burglary in relation to the deaths of the four students. He will return to court on June 26.
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