{"id":1758478,"date":"2022-12-01T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758478"},"modified":"2022-12-01T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:33:40","slug":"idaho-police-now-say-they-dont-know-if-murdered-university-of-idaho-students-were-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idaho-police-now-say-they-dont-know-if-murdered-university-of-idaho-students-were-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Police Now Say They Don\u2019t Know If Murdered University of Idaho Students Were Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fidaho-police-now-say-they-dont-know-if-murdered-university-of-idaho-students-were-targeted%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758478&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In another major reversal from earlier statements, police in Moscow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/idaho\">Idaho<\/a>, are now saying they don\u2019t know if the four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/homicide\">murdered<\/a> University of Idaho <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/students\">students<\/a> were specifically targeted in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ci.moscow.id.us\/DocumentCenter\/View\/24784\/\">responded<\/a> Wednesday to a statement made by the Latah County Prosecutor\u2019s Office which stated that \u201cthe suspect(s) specifically looked at this residence, and that one or more of the occupants were undoubtedly targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have spoken with the Latah County Prosecutor\u2019s Office and identified this was a miscommunication,\u201d the department said. \u201cDetectives do not currently know if the residence or any occupants were specifically targeted but continue to investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a departure from the department\u2019s previous statements indicating that the homicide was a \u201ctargeted\u201d attack. It isn\u2019t the first time police have reversed course from prior statements.<\/p>\n<p>When the homicide was first reported, police said in press releases that, in addition to being a targeted attack, there was no ongoing threat to the community. On November 16, however, Moscow Police Chief James Fry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/idaho-police-reverse-course-now-cannot-say-that-there-is-no-threat-to-the-community-in-case-of-four-murdered-students\">acknowledged<\/a> that there may be a threat to the community since the police still do not have a person of interest connected to the slayings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot say that there is no threat to the community,\u201d Fry said at a press conference. \u201cThere is a threat out there, possibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That same day, Fry insisted the attack was targeted, yet now the police are saying they can\u2019t be sure.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been more than two weeks since Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, were murdered in their off-campus residence \u2013 and police still have not named any suspects. Police responded to a call around noon on November 13, reporting an unconscious person at an off-campus residence. When they arrived, they found the four murdered students.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Aaron Snell, spokesperson for the Idaho State Police, told Fox News\u2019 Lawrence Jones that while investigators \u201cdon\u2019t currently have a suspect,\u201d keeping certain information from the public \u201cis going to be critical into trying to develop that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, you\u2019ve got somebody that\u2019s on the loose right now. There\u2019s a lot of fear with the public based on what you guys have been able to collect. And you have profilers on the team, [behavioral analysis] unit is here, why not go ahead and release that profile?\u201d Jones asked Snell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/idaho-student-murders-update-police-why-key-details-withheld-from-public\">according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will potentially put more fear, more suspicion on a wide variety of people versus if we use that to really refine where we\u2019re at in our investigation. I think that will be more pertinent,\u201d Snell replied. \u201cAnd so if we just provide information to the public, I just don\u2019t think that that\u2019s going to be a wise choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have also said they do not believe that the two surviving roommates \u2013 who apparently did not hear the killings take place \u2013 are involved in the crimes. They also do not believe a man observed in surveillance video outside a food truck visited by Goncalves and Mogen the night of the murders was involved, nor was a driver who drove the women home.<\/p>\n<p>One week after the slayings, law enforcement provided more information about the killings and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ci.moscow.id.us\/DocumentCenter\/View\/24745\/11-20-2022-Moscow-Homicide-Update\">asked the public<\/a>\u00a0for \u201ccontext to the events and people involved in these murders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who observed notable behavior, has video surveillance, or can provide relevant information is asked to call the Tip Line,\u201d police said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Police are looking for any outside surveillance video taken between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. on November 13 \u2013 the morning of the murders \u2013 from local businesses and residences in the area. They\u2019ve requested all video, even if there doesn\u2019t appear to be any motion in them. Police are also asking for any tips or surveillance video about \u201cany observed suspicious behavior\u201d on the night of the murders, particularly in the areas where the students had been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another major reversal from earlier statements, police in Moscow, Idaho, are now saying they don\u2019t know if the four murdered University of Idaho students were specifically targeted in the attack. The Moscow Police Department responded Wednesday to a statement made by the Latah County Prosecutor\u2019s Office which stated that \u201cthe suspect(s) specifically looked at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1758481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}