Bryan Kohberger sentenced to life without parole for Idaho student murders

 

 

 

 

Steve Goncalves, father of victim Kaylee Goncalves, said any details from Bryan Kohberger would have been useful in protecting survivors.

“No better way to protect them than by getting some of those details. If you got those details, then you know — simple as just saying, ‘I did it solo’ would have been, you know, valuable,” he told reporters after court adjourned.

Goncalves said the plea deal negotiation wasn’t justice, but a shortcut.

“We said from the very beginning: We we’re not interested in a shortcut for our daughter, you know. We wanted everything,” he said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered a message of support to the victims’ families following the sentencing of Bryan Kohberger.

We are so sorry for the grief and the pain you have experienced at the hands of such vicious and evil killer. Our nation grieves with you and we will never forget the precious souls who were lost in this horrific act of evil. If it were up to the president, he would’ve forced this monster to publicly explain why he chose to steal these innocent souls. May God bless and watch over everyone affected by this unimaginable tragedy, especially the parents who lost their children,” Leavitt said during today’s White House briefing.

Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders of four University of Idaho students.

Kohberger, a 30-year-old former PhD student of criminology, admitted his guilt to four counts of first degree murder and one count of burglary and entered a plea deal that removes the possibility of the death penalty.

 

He is likely to be sent to Idaho’s only maximum-security prison, the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, which opened in 1989 to confine the state’s “most disruptive male residents.”