Just hours before the Idaho slayings, another grisly scene unfolded outside Bryan Kohberger’s window

• On the night time of the Idaho killings, police responded to a crash in entrance of the suspect’s house. 
• The crash, which occurred in Washington, resulted in two pedestrians being despatched to a hospital.
• The suspect left for Moscow, Idaho, hours after the crash, seemingly passing police a number of instances.

All through his journey to Moscow, Idaho, and again house in Pullman, Washington, police and sheriff’s deputies spent hours in entrance of Idaho slayings suspect Bryan Kohberger’s house responding to a “horrifying” hit-and-run. 

Kohberger, a pupil accused of killing 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, 21-year-old Madison Mogen, 20-year-old Xana Kernodle, and 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, lived in a campus residence close to Washington State College, the place he studied criminology.

Earlier than the Idaho slayings, information pulled from Kohberger’s cellphone revealed that the suspect traveled to the home the place the murders occurred no fewer than 12 instances. And on the night time that the murders occurred, information reveals that he traveled there as soon as once more. 

Hours earlier than his travels, nevertheless, Washington State College police and Whitman County sheriff’s deputies arrived in entrance of his house to reply to a unique bloody crime scene.

The crash was reported at 11:40 p.m. on November 12 — three hours earlier than Kohberger left his house for Idaho — and resulted in two pedestrians being despatched to the hospital with severe accidents.

Turner Gardner, 26, instructed Insider {that a} man had been thrown from the street and a girl lay face-down screaming, and 

“It was horrifying,” she mentioned of coming upon the scene simply earlier than midnight on November 12.

“I heard a screech and a loud bang,” one other witness, Aundrea McKinsey, 25, instructed Insider. “It was scary.”

Police finally took a 19-year-old Kappa Delta sorority member named Carmen E. Fernandez into custody following a manhunt and charged her with vehicular assault and DUI, in keeping with police and press reviews.

There’s a probability that Kohberger witnessed the crash earlier than leaving his residence at 2:42 a.m. on November 13, in keeping with mobile information and traffic-camera footage. Mobile information reveals that he was at house throughout the crash and will hear and see the road from a second-story window. Neighbors and courtroom paperwork additionally famous that Kohberger was an insomniac.

After the crash, throughout the early hours of Sunday morning, Kohberger drove in his white Hyundai sedan 11 miles to Moscow, in keeping with cellphone and visitors information.

The police response to the hit-and-run blocked probably the most direct method to Kohberger’s house, considered one of solely two methods to entry his residence constructing. The route that was open that night time requires turning 4 instances on residential streets and going over 4 pace bumps earlier than connecting with a predominant street. The route police blocked had one flip and one pace bump.

Prosecutors allege he then dedicated the grisly killings, abandoning a knife sheath containing the DNA that may finally result in his arrest on costs of first-degree homicide.

By 5:30 a.m., cell tower pings confirmed his cellphone again at his house. Witnesses mentioned that the police had been nonetheless on his avenue responding to the crash incident. 

Kohberger once more left his residence at 9 a.m., touring to the scene of the murders earlier than returning house, prosecutors allege.

As soon as extra at midday — when the Moscow police commenced their hunt for the killer — Kohberger’s cellphone pings point out that he seemingly slipped out of his residence and previous Pullman police as soon as extra. 

Whereas authorities had no cause to consider 4 individuals had been murdered within the neighboring city with its personal police pressure, it is unclear if the crash had something to do with the killings or if it was a easy coincidence.

“It makes you marvel if issues may have been totally different,” Religion Grossi, 19, instructed Insider standing in a pupil room with a window dealing with the hit-and-run scene and Kohberger’s residence.