Since news of the deaths broke, Moscow police have been tight-lipped about the case, despite assuring members of the community that the incident was a targeted attack that did not pose an “immediate threat to the community at large.” . Parents and family members of the four dead students have hit out at the police response, criticizing the lack of information available about the deaths and questioning whether there really isn’t a wider community risk as the gunman remains at large. As of Wednesday afternoon, police still do not have a suspect in custody following Sunday’s murders.

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Story continues below ad Authorities said they continue to believe the attack was targeted, but rejected an earlier statement that there was no threat to the public when speaking to reporters on Wednesday.

Final details

At a news conference Wednesday, Moscow Police Chief James Fry gave reporters an incomplete timeline of the incident, admitting that a news conference should have been held a day or two earlier. He said the four victims, Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, had attended various events around the University of Idaho before returning home early Sunday morning. Chapin and Kernodle were attending a party on campus, while Mogen and Goncalves were at a nearby bar. 1:16 What police know about the students found dead near the University of Idaho campus Chapin was not staying at the home with the other three victims, but was spending the night with his girlfriend, Kernodle, his mother, Stacy Chapin, told ABC News. Story continues below ad Police Chief Fry said that early Sunday morning, the four students were “stabbed with a knife.” Fry added that there was no sign of forced entry into the home and they have yet to locate the murder weapon.

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Around noon, police received a 911 call about an unconscious person and arrived at the home where they found the four dead. Fry said two other roommates were at the home when police arrived, and police believe the roommates were there at the time of the murders. Fry said the other roommates were not injured, but did not say whether they are considered suspects. Police did not have an answer to why the 911 call reporting the incident came so many hours after police believe the murders occurred and why the caller said there was one unconscious person instead of four people who had been stabbed. Police declined to answer media questions about the identity of the 911 caller. Chief James Fry speaks during a news conference about a quadruple homicide investigation involving four University of Idaho students at the Moscow Police Department on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in Moscow, Idaho. Zach Wilkinson/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP When reporters asked what the roommates might have witnessed the night of the murders, Fry replied, “I’m not going to talk about what they shared.” Current trend

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Story continues below ad “We’re looking at everybody,” Idaho State Police Col. Kendrick Willis said during the press conference. “Every tip we get, every drive we get — there’s no one we’re not going to talk to. There’s no one we’re not going to interview.” Police also retracted earlier comments about the killings posing no threat to the community, amid outrage from University of Idaho students, who have left the campus in droves ahead of Thanksgiving, and the families of the victims. “We don’t have a suspect at this time and that person is still out there,” Fry said during the news conference. “We can’t say there’s no threat to the community.”

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Autopsies were performed Wednesday in nearby Spokane, Wash., and Idaho State Police and the FBI were also working the case, Fry said. Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt said autopsies have been completed and will confirm what details she can provide to law enforcement Thursday. “Disgusting,” Mabbutt told KHQ. “I’ve never seen anything like this in the 16 years I’ve been in this position.” In a press release Tuesday, police said they “have shared any information we can without compromising the ongoing investigation.” Story continues below ad

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Anger from victims’ family members

The lack of publicity about the case has angered some of the victims’ family members, who have spoken out about the heavy-handed police response. “There is a lack of information from the University of Idaho and local police, which only fuels false rumors and innuendo in the press and social media,” Jim Chapin, Ethan Chapin’s father, wrote in an email to AP News. “The silence further intensifies our family’s anguish after our son’s murder,” Chapin said. “For Ethan and his three dear friends who were killed in Moscow, Idaho and all of our families, I urge officials to tell the truth, share what they know, find the perpetrator and protect the greater community.” 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 The Goncalves family issued a warning to whoever was behind the murders. Story continues below ad “Whoever is responsible, we will find you. We will never stop. The pain you caused fueled our hatred and sealed your fate,” the family said in a statement posted on Twitter. “Justice will be served.” Meanwhile, Aubrie Goncalves, Kaylee’s sister, posted a message on Instagram urging the students to leave. “Your grades are far less important than your life. I wish all U of I students safety and peace,” he wrote hours before the police press conference. “You are not safe until this sick man is found. If the person who did this is capable of killing four innocent people, he is capable of killing more.” 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 Moscow is a city of about 25,000 in the Idaho Panhandle, about 80 miles south of Spokane. According to the Idaho Statesman, the city has not seen a homicide since 2015. Story continues below ad News of the killings prompted many of the 11,000 students to leave the Idaho campus early for Thanksgiving break. University of Idaho President Scott Green also spoke at the news conference and said school will remain open the rest of the week because some students have found comfort in being on campus with professors and classmates. But the school also gave excused absences to anyone who felt more comfortable leaving early. “We’re going to support each other as we grieve,” Green said, his voice cracking as he read the four names. “We just want justice for these victims.” — With files from The Associated Press 1:15 Suspect arrested in fatal shooting at University of Virginia: police Previous Video Next Video