It’ll be even better news if it turns out they got the right perp.
Not that I have specific concerns they don’t, but early policework is often wrong policework. Not because they’re evil or incompetent, but just because it’s a difficult problem to correctly select the right needle out of the haystack of the total populace and then go find that person. Who almost always most definitely does not want to be found.
Kohberger was not the first person arrested, nor the first suspect publicized, after the infamous Idaho collegiate stabbings.
Reads like (1) he *served in the US Army, but doing ceremonial duties that didn’t have him deploying anywhere and (2) he may have been enrolled at Brown this semester.
I say “may have been” because it’s pretty clear he was planning to attend Brown this semester, but unclear whether he actually started studying there and if he was still enrolled.
Still no mention of a possible motive.
*But so far, he does not necessarily seem to have been the sort of trainwreck that I have been accustomed to reading about doing this sort of thing (that is, he does not seem to have had extensive disciplinary problems since he got the Good Conduct Medal and made it to E4 and, based on the details provided, I would infer that he probably finished his enlistment).
That’s true, and I always think of Richard Jewell whenever a perp’s identity isn’t cut-and-dried.
I also read that, at least in the auditorium in the building where it happened, most of the people were there for a review session, and not necessarily a test.
There’s some chatter on X that one of the victims, Ella Cook, was targeted because she was a devout Christian and the head of Brown’s chapter of College Republicans. I wonder how anyone would know that. (For that matter, there are probably people who think the other victim was targeted for being Uzbek, and presumably Muslim.)
I’m not on X, but the tweet I saw was linked on another website, and had more than 600 responses. I was almost tempted to get an X account just to read them, and decided I had better things to do with my time and electricity.