Brian Koberger, convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students, may have encountered one of the victims’ roommates just three days before the tragic events, according to recent reports.
He was reportedly at a Target store in close proximity to one of the surviving roommates within two hours of her being there. As noted in a post by Michael Lewis from FOX News, the police report details a receipt showing Koberger was shopping at the store on November 10, 2022, at 5:42 p.m., while another purchase by the roommate was logged at 4:09 p.m. on the same day.
“BF” mentioned in the report is believed to refer to Bethany Funke, one of the two surviving roommates.
The police report, however, does not clarify whether Koberger and Funke were at the store at the same time.
Funke lived in a shared off-campus house with five other roommates in Moscow, Idaho, which is roughly 15 minutes from Koberger’s residence in Pullman, Washington. It remains unclear in which town the Target was located.
Koberger, at 31, entered the Moscow home late at night and fatally stabbed Zana Karnodol, Kaylee Gonsalves, Madison Morgen, and Ethan Chapin. Funke and her fellow roommate Dylan Mortensen, who were in a different room, escaped injury.
A graduate student from the University of Washington, Koberger accepted a plea deal just weeks before his trial was set to commence. This decision spared him from the death penalty but left some of the victims’ families feeling frustrated, as they were denied insight into the events that led to the tragic massacre.
Currently, Koberger is serving four life sentences without the possibility of parole. Since his incarceration, he’s made headlines for voicing complaints about harassment from other inmates, as well as issues regarding the quality of bananas he has received.
