Bryan Christopher Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, touched down in Pullman, Washington, Wednesday night and was flown to Idaho, where he is charged in the deaths.
After landing in the town less than 10 miles from Moscow, Idaho, he was escorted by officers from the Pennsylvania State Police plane to a waiting vehicle, which was part of the five-vehicle caravan that crossed the Idaho border. .
Kohberger, 28, made the cross-country trip after he was removed from a county jail in Pennsylvania and turned over to state police earlier that day, authorities said.
he resigned extradition tuesday in a Stroudsburg courthouse, paving the way for his trip to Latah County, Idaho.
That’s where prosecutor Bill Thompson said Kohberger will be charged with four counts of first-degree murder and robbery, charged with breaking into a Moscow, Idaho, home with the intent to commit a felony.
He “will be assessed by jail staff upon arrival, just like any other inmate entering our facility. Mr. Kohberger’s housing classification will be based on the assessment conducted by jail staff,” the sheriff said. of Latah County, Richard Skiles, in a statement.
Kohberger was arrested Friday in Albrightsville, in northeastern Pennsylvania, about 2,500 miles from Moscow, where the students were killed on November 13.
is accused of of kill Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Wash.; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Avondale, Ariz.; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho.
The suspect was a PhD student. at the department of criminal justice and criminology at Washington State University, 9 miles from Moscow.
Kohberger is “no longer enrolled as a student” at the university, a school representative said Tuesday without elaborating.
Antonio Planas, Tim Stelloh Y Associated Press contributed.