- Cops investigating the November 13 murders of the University of Idaho students have been flooded with emergency calls.
- Since the killings, police got more calls for “unusual circumstances” and welfare checks than it did for all of October.
- “We understand there is a sense of fear within our community,” the Moscow Police Department said.
Police investigating the horrific killings of four University of Idaho students say that they have been flooded with emergency calls since the attack earlier this month.
In the two weeks since the November 13 murders in the small city of Moscow, Idaho, the Moscow Police Department got more calls for “unusual circumstances” and requests to check on loved ones than it did for the entire month of October.
“We understand there is a sense of fear within our community,” the department said on Sunday as authorities have still not identified a suspect in connection to the stabbing deaths.
Since the killings, the department received 78 calls for “unusual circumstances” and 36 requests for police to do a welfare check on loved ones — up from the 70 and 18 calls, respectively, that police got for all of October.
“As officers respond to these incidents, they find that concerned parties call friends and family before notifying the police,” the department said, explaining that 911 should be called first in an emergency.
The city of Moscow has been on edge since the murders of 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
The four friends and University of Idaho students were stabbed to death — likely while they were asleep, a local coroner said — inside an off-campus home nearby the college in the early morning hours of November 13.
Investigators have repeatedly described the attack as “targeted” even though they have not made any arrests or identified a suspect.
Local and state police, along with the FBI, are continuing to investigate the case.
Meanwhile, community members have uploaded more than 488 digital media submissions to an FBI link in which the feds are seeking information about the killings, Moscow police said on Sunday.
