Idaho restaurant where 2 victims worked denies Bryan Kohberger ate there

A restaurant the place two of the College of Idaho homicide victims labored denied a report that alleged killer Bryan Kohberger dined on the eatery earlier than the bloodbath. 

Jackie Fischer, the proprietor of the Mad Greek restaurant in Moscow slammed a Individuals report the place a former unnamed worker claimed that Kohberger had stopped by the eatery twice within the weeks earlier than the killings and ordered vegan pizza.

Two of the victims, Madison Mogen, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, labored on the Mad Greek as waitresses. The worker mentioned that the alleged killer’s order was notable as a result of Kohberger, who an aunt instructed The Publish had “very, very bizarre” dietary restrictions, needed to make sure that no animal merchandise touched his meals. 

“The information/media ought to actually do their due diligence earlier than working a narrative with utterly fabricated info,” Fischer seethed in a Fb publish. 

“This one who needs their 5 minutes of fame has now precipitated an entire bunch of additional work for myself and the investigators,” she added. 

Fischer famous that she didn’t bar workers from chatting with reporters, however that the employees collective determined to “help the households and never share something that would doubtlessly hurt the investigation or trigger the households extra stress.”

The restaurant proprietor added that she and her employees have been unable to in all probability grieve because of the aggressive media highlight on the case.

“With our telephones ringing off the hook, reporters banging on my door at my non-public residence and ‘looking’ down workers in addition to displaying up continually on the restaurant, now we have not been afforded the time to grieve,” she mentioned, earlier than warning the general public to not “imagine all the things you learn.”

“If it’s not coming from the courts or the police, wait till it does or doesn’t earlier than judging,” she mentioned. 

Fischer’s diatribe got here simply after twenty-two native and nationwide information retailers banded collectively to request that an Idaho narrows the scope of a gag order within the case.

Kohberger, a 28-year-old Washington State College criminology pupil, has been charged with 4 counts of first-degree homicide and housebreaking for fatally stabbing Mogen and Kernodle, in addition to Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in an off-campus residence on Nov. 13. 

Earlier this month, Latah County Justice of the Peace Choose Megan Marshall barred attorneys, regulation enforcement companies, and officers concerned with the case earlier this month with a gag order. On Thursday, she expanded the prohibition to incorporate all attorneys representing survivors, witnesses, and the victims’ members of the family from discussing the case.

“There’s a stability between defending the correct to a good trial for all events concerned and the correct to free expression as afforded below each america and Idaho Structure,” Marshall wrote. “To protect the correct to a good trial some curtailment of the dissemination of data, on this case, is critical and licensed below the regulation.”

However Josh Hoffner, nationwide information director for The Related Press, mentioned that the “order is unnecessarily sweeping and broad and severely impedes the general public’s understanding of a major prison investigation that profoundly impacted the group.”

With Publish wires.