Bryan Kohberger, a suspect in the killing of four University of Idaho students, was pulled over by investigators mid-December last year in an effort to get footage of both him and his hands, according to a report.
An FBI surveillance team that was tracking Kohberger, 28, and his father while the two were on a trip together asked Indiana police to pull the suspect over while they were driving, according to a law enforcement source. The source added that at the time of pulling Kohberger over on Dec. 15, investigators were still building their case to arrest him, and that genealogy played a major role in the case, according to Fox News.
Kohberger and his father, Michael Kohberger, had been pulled over by police twice within a 9-minute time frame while driving on I-70 in Indiana on Dec. 15, according to Indiana State Police and the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department. He was not issued a ticket at either traffic stop.The pair had been taking a cross-country road trip together from Washington State University to Pennsylvania at the time they were pulled over by investigators, according to the report.
Kohberger is a doctoral student studying criminal justice at the WSU campus, which is roughly 15 minutes away from the University of Idaho, in Moscow, Idaho. He was arrested on Dec. 30 in eastern Pennsylvania for his suspected involvement in the murders of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, who were killed in their home in Moscow on Nov. 13.
The suspect has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. He was booked into the Latah County Jail in Idaho on Wednesday night and will appear in court on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. EST, according to CNN. Police in Moscow, Idaho, have announced that they will not be sharing any further information on the murder case with the public or the press due to a court order forbidding them from doing so."The order prohibits any communication by investigators, law enforcement personnel, attorneys, and agents of the prosecuting attorney or defense attorney concerning this case," the statement from police said.
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