Bryan Kohberger He was investigated in relation to an armed break a year before he fatally stabbed four students at Idaho University.
According to the records of the Pullman police department obtained by News NBCAuthorities investigated a 2021 break in a house in Pullman, Washington, through the Moscow state line, Idaho.
An individual masked by knife allegedly burst into a house of four sisters of sorority at 3:30 AM and stood on one of his beds, according to documents published by the city of Pullman.
A witness told the authorities that the person fled the scene after giving them their punches to the stomach, according to police records.
Records show that authorities investigated a neighbor but did not have a probable cause to take him to remand.
A police officer commissioned a sergeant to see if Kohberger could have been in the area at that time for an event on the campus for future graduated students.
According to NBC News, police felt that the case was “inactive” after a school criminology department coordinator confirmed that there were no contracting events at the time of rupture and that the school was unaware of any Kohberger’s visit.
The incident in Pullman took place eight months before Kohberger officially moved to study criminology at Washington State University. He was never arrested or charged with a crime in relation to entry.

Bryan Kohberger
AP Photo/Kyle Green, PoolEverything changed to Kohberger in 2022, but when he was arrested and accused of four allegations of first degree murder and theft after entering a Moscow, Idaho, with the intention of committing a crime.
After his initial statement, Kohberger declared himself guilty of the University of Idaho’s killings in an agreement to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced in July to four lives in prison.
Maddie, Kaylee goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were stabbed until death while their roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke He survived the incident that made headlines across the country.
Before Kohberger’s ruling, Mortensen delivered a Emotional victim impact statement And he explained how the deaths of his friends changed their lives forever.
“What happened that night changed everything,” he said through tears, according to CBS News. “Due to him, four beautiful, genuine and compassionate people were taken from this world for no reason. What he did was destroyed in places he did not know he could break. It should have been to find out who he was. He should have been to have the university experience and begin to establish my future.
During the judgment, judge Steven Hippler He also shared some words and insisted that no father should find a son.
“This act of unmistakable and unmistakable evil has caused unmistakable pain,” he said. “This is the biggest tragedy that can be inflicted on a person.”