{"id":1759996,"date":"2022-12-02T13:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759996"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:34:03","slug":"idaho-police-further-clarify-what-they-mean-by-targeted-attack-in-murder-of-four-university-of-idaho-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idaho-police-further-clarify-what-they-mean-by-targeted-attack-in-murder-of-four-university-of-idaho-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Police Further Clarify What They Mean By \u2018Targeted Attack\u2019 In Murder Of Four University Of Idaho Students"},"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\">36<\/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-further-clarify-what-they-mean-by-targeted-attack-in-murder-of-four-university-of-idaho-students%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=1759996&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>Police in Moscow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/idaho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idaho<\/a>, on Thursday once again backtracked on whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/homicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murder<\/a> of four University of Idaho <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students<\/a> was a \u201ctargeted attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, police said they are unsure whether it was the students or the residence that was targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain consistent in our belief that this was a targeted attack, but investigators have not concluded if the target was the residence or if it was the occupants,\u201d police said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ci.moscow.id.us\/DocumentCenter\/View\/24808\/12-01-22-Moscow-Homicide-Update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification comes one day after the police department said it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/idaho-police-now-say-they-dont-know-if-murdered-university-of-idaho-students-were-targeted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wasn\u2019t sure<\/a> if the murdered students were specifically targeted in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow Police Department\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ci.moscow.id.us\/DocumentCenter\/View\/24784\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday 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>That itself was a departure from the department\u2019s previous statements indicating that the homicides were a \u201ctargeted\u201d attack. It wasn\u2019t the first time police have reversed course from prior statements.<\/p>\n<p>When the homicides were 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\u00a0<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>\u00a0that there may be a threat to the community since the police still did 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 before police appeared to pivot and say they were unsure if the attacks were targeted.<\/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 or found the murder weapon.<\/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 the 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>Police in Moscow, Idaho, on Thursday once again backtracked on whether the murder of four University of Idaho students was a \u201ctargeted attack.\u201d This time, however, police said they are unsure whether it was the students or the residence that was targeted. \u201cWe remain consistent in our belief that this was a targeted attack, but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1759999,"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-1759996","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\/1759996","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=1759996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}