The household of Bryan Kohberger, the suspect who was charged with murdering 4 College of Idaho college students final November, has launched an announcement saying that they care deeply for the victims’ households, and can proceed to like and assist their son.

NewsNation reporter Brian Entin posted the assertion from Kohberger’s household to Twitter on Sunday.

The household’s assertion mentioned, “At the beginning we care deeply for the 4 households who’ve misplaced their treasured kids. There are not any phrases that may adequately specific the unhappiness we really feel, and we pray every day for them.”

It continued: “We are going to proceed to let the authorized course of unfold and as a household we’ll love and assist our sons and brothers. We’ve got totally cooperated with legislation enforcement companies in an try to hunt the reality and promote his presumption of innocence slightly than decide unknown info and make mistaken assumptions.”

Police took 28-year-old Kohberger into custody at his mother or father’s house in Chestnuthill Township, Pennsylvania, on December 30. He’s charged with the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. The 4 college students have been discovered stabbed to demise of their beds in an off-campus residence on November 13.

Police imagine that Kohberger broke into the scholars’ shared dwelling area “with the intent to commit homicide” earlier than touring cross-country to Pennsylvania.

Kohberger was a Ph.D. scholar within the Division of Prison Justice and Criminology at Washington State College, lower than 10 miles from the College of Idaho.

“These murders have shaken our neighborhood and I do know that no arrest will restore the households or carry these younger college students again. Nevertheless, we imagine within the felony course of and proceed to increase our most honest condolences to the households,” mentioned Moscow Police Chief James Fry on Friday.

The police additionally mentioned that Kohberger’s possible explanation for the affidavits remained sealed till the arrest warrant was returned to the courtroom. The factual foundation of this case may even stay sealed till the suspect makes an preliminary look in an Idaho courtroom.

To expedite the method of transportation again to Idaho, Kohberger mentioned he would waive extradition, in line with his lawyer Jason LaBar.

“Mr. Kohberger is keen to be exonerated of those costs and appears ahead to resolving these issues as promptly as potential,” LaBar mentioned in an announcement. “Mr. Kohberger has been accused of very critical crimes, however the American justice system cloaks him in a veil of innocence. He must be presumed harmless till confirmed in any other case—not tried within the courtroom of public opinion.”

In the meantime, retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer took to Twitter on Sunday and predicted that Kohberger could be again in Moscow, Idaho, “by the top of the week to start the judicial course of.”

Coffindaffer instructed Newsweek on Sunday, “I believe it’s a sensible and accountable response to make as a mother or father. You wish to assist your baby. It’s regular and pure to imagine your baby is harmless particularly in opposition to atrocities like these. It was good to acknowledge the sufferer’s whose lives have been brutally taken from them.”

Coffindaffer added: “The suspects’ household’s opinions actually haven’t any relevance right here, and little question to me legislation enforcement will look into the dad and mom to see in the event that they aided and abetted him [Bryan Kohberger]. It is rather believable that they didn’t know concerning the alleged crime he dedicated.”

The previous FBI agent concluded by saying as a mother or father this case is troublesome as a result of “you like your son, you assist your son, however it’s arduous to do this when they’re accused of a quadruple murder.”