In a press release on Tuesday, Moscow police said they believed the four students were killed with a “sharp weapon, such as a knife”, although they added that no weapon had been found so far. Police do not yet have any suspects in custody. Police said autopsies on the four dead students will be conducted this week and “hopefully will provide more definitive information on the exact cause of the deaths.”

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Story continues below ad Police reiterated that they believe the quadruple homicide is an “isolated, targeted attack” that does not pose an “immediate threat to the community at large.” University of Idaho students and their parents have criticized the police response to the deaths because of a lack of available information and fear a violent offender is still at large on campus. Police said their preliminary investigation leads them to believe there is no wider community risk, but no evidence to support that has been released. “Obviously, there’s no way the police can say there’s no danger, but what they’re seeing shows there’s no danger that this person is going to randomly attack people,” Latah County District Attorney Bill Thompson said in an interview with CBS News. Thompson added that there is a possibility that the homicides were committed by one or more people.

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NBC reported that the University of Idaho felt deserted Wednesday, with one student likening the atmosphere on campus to the early days of the COVID-19 restrictions. The University of Idaho canceled classes Monday after the deaths, and university president Scott Green asked faculty to be “empathetic, flexible and collaborative with our students” as many choose to leave campus early for the break to on Thanksgiving Day. Story continues below ad So many students left that a candlelight vigil for the slain students, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been rescheduled for after the holidays, according to an email from the dean of students on Tuesday.

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Moscow police said in their press release that investigators are working to establish a timeline to recreate the victims’ activities from the evening of November 12 to the early morning of November 13. they may have caught two of the victims chatting and grabbing food from a food truck hours before they were killed. “They’re in the process of identifying the other people who were there” at the food truck, Thompson said, “and what kind of contact they had.” An unconfirmed video posted on Twitter by local TV reporter John Webb appears to show footage of two of the victims. A single man in a black coat, gray hoodie, black pants and a black baseball cap is seen watching the two girls while they order food. (Global News is working with outside video partners to verify the footage.) Video from a food truck in Moscow shows what appear to be two victims, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, just hours before the murders. @KHQLocalNews pic.twitter.com/vf4LpWEGeb — John Webb (@johnwebbtv) November 16, 2022 Story continues below ad The bodies of the four students were found around noon on November 13 after police responded to a report of an unconscious person. Current trend

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The dead students were identified by police and the university as:

Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington. Chapin was a freshman majoring in recreation, sports and tourism management and a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Xana Kernodle, 20, of Avondale, Ariz. Kernodle was a junior marketing major and a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.

				This undated photo provided by Jazzmin Kernodle shows University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, right, and Ethan Chapin.  Both students were among four found stabbed to death in an off-campus rental home on Nov. 13, 2022. The two had reportedly been dating since spring.  Jazzmin Kernodle via AP

Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Mogen was a senior majoring in marketing and a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho. Goncalves was a senior majoring in general studies and a member of Alpha Phi sorority.

According to neighbor Ellie McKnight, who was also Chapin’s friend, Goncalves, Mogen and Kernodle all lived together in the home where they were found dead. Chapin and Kernodle had been in a relationship since the spring, the report notes. Story continues below ad Officers investigate the deaths of four University of Idaho students at an apartment complex south of campus Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Moscow, Idaho. The Moscow Police Department has classified the deaths as homicides, but maintains there is no active danger to the community. Zach Wilkinson/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP According to social media photos, the four students appeared to be close friends. On the day of their deaths, Goncalves, one of the victims, posted a photo on Instagram of herself posing with the other three victims. In the photo, Mogen, who is wearing an “Idaho” sweatshirt, sits on Goncalves’ shoulders while Chapin wraps his arm around Kernodle. Captioning the post, Goncalves writes that she is “a lucky girl to be surrounded by these (people) everyday [sic].” Screenshot of an Instagram photo showing the four victims in a recent homicide investigation in Moscow, Idaho, posing together on the same day they were killed. Instagram Fox News Digital reported that in September, students and staff at the University of Idaho were sent a community alert about a person making threats with a knife on campus. Story continues below ad The subject line of the September 12th email was “Knife Threat” and said that “Moscow Police Department received a report that a group of students were walking between the Steam Plant parking lot (Lot #14) and the Student Recreation Center on Paradise Path and were threatened by a person with a knife.” Fox News said a concerned parent of a University of Idaho student shared the email with them.

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“No one was injured in the incident, but members of the campus community are advised to exercise caution,” the email states. The suspect was described as a white male between 18 and 22 years old on a mountain bike, wearing all black clothing and a black baseball cap, the alert said. Fox News asked Moscow police if the incident might be connected to the killing of the four students, but they declined to comment. “I don’t have any information on that at this time,” Capt. Anthony Dahlinger said. 1:50 Idaho teenager accepted to all eight Ivy League schools Previous Video Next Video © 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.