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Bryan Kohberger attended a hearing in January in Moscow, Idaho.
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The suspect in last year’s fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of murder and burglary, a court official told CNN.
Bryan Kohberger was charged with all five original charges — four counts of murder and one count of burglary — Latah County Deputy Court Clerk Tamzen Reeves said Wednesday. If found guilty, he could face the death penalty.
A hearing is set for Monday.
Kohberger was arrested in December for allegedly killing Kaylee Goncalves, 21, on November 13; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, in a house outside the main campus of the University of Idaho in Moscow, not far from the Washington state border.
CNN has reached out to Kohberger’s attorney for comment.
The killings prompted a weeks-long manhunt for a suspect, leaving the campus and surrounding community reeling with uncertainty and fear until Kohberger’s arrest on Dec. 30 at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania. where a lawyer for the suspect said he went for the holidays.
Investigators approached Kohberger — a graduate student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University in nearby Pullman — after targeting a white Hyundai Elantra seen on surveillance footage near the crime scene, a probable cause affidavit released in January states.
Area law enforcement was notified on November 25 to look at the vehicle, the affidavit reads, and WSU police within days identified a white Elantra and found it registered to Kohberger.
Kohberger’s driver’s license information matched the description given to police of a man who was left with the victims’ roommate, the affidavit said, noting his height, weight and bushy eyebrows. The roommate told investigators she saw a man dressed in black the morning of the attack.
Investigators immediately connected Kohberger to the crime scene after DNA on a leather jacket found lying next to one of the victims was matched to DNA in trash recovered from Kohberger’s family home. according to the affidavit.
After his arrest, Kohberger waived extradition and was returned to Idaho. He was booked into the Latah County Jail on the same counts he was charged with.
