Police provided updates to their investigation into the University of Idaho murders, clarifying that initial statements the killings were targeted resulted from a “miscommunication” and that the motive behind the attack is still unknown.
Officials in Moscow, Idaho, initially reported that they believed the Nov. 13 attack, which left four students dead in their off-campus home, was the result of an “isolated, targeted attack” by someone who had “specifically looked at this residence.” However, police backtracked on these statements, explaining they resulted from a “miscommunication” with the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office.
“It will potentially put more fear, more suspicion on a wide variety of people versus if we use that to really refine where we're at in our investigation. I think that will be more pertinent,” Aaron Snell, the communications director for the Idaho State Police, told Fox News. “And so if we just provide information to the public, I just don't think that that's going to be a wise choice.
The victims have been identified as university students Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21. Each was murdered in bed and was stabbed in the chest and upper body with a large knife.
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