you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reid in washington. new details this hour about the suspect charged with murdering four university of idaho students in their beds seven weeks away. cnn has learned his father was with him as he dropped across country for the holidays after the crime took place. police began tracking them at some point during the trip. the suspect is now charged with four counts of murder in the first degrees. he s expected to waive extradition and return to idaho. cnn s jean coasarez is there. reporter: when i spot to hi attorney, he told me he believes they arrived in pennsylvania, the home their home, about december 17th. well, cnn has also spoken with someone and actually corroborated with two people that, along the trip, but it was in pennsylvania, that on december 16th, that they were at an auto repair shop. this person tells cnn they were getting some work done on the hyundai elantra. that s the white car, and that the suspect the def
bryan kohberger s attorney said he drove to pennsylvania with his father. kohberger s attorney was told that he was driving home for the holidays. authorities tracked the suspect all the way to pennsylvania and watched him for days before finally making an arrest in the middle of the night. veronica miracle is following the story for us from moscow, idaho. what s the mood like now there after there s actually finally an arrest? reporter: paula, the community of moscow has really been on edge for the last seven weeks. it has been very tense here. businesses have shut down early so their employees could get home at a reasonable hour. in fact, other businesses say that some of the employees left the city because this is a college town. students make up a lot of the employees. they didn t feel safe being here. there s such a sense of relief now. of course, it doesn t change the fact that these four gruesome murders happened at the house behind me in this very seemingly safe com
starts right now. i m pamela brown in washington. new developments tonight in the idaho murder investigation. for the first time we are hearing from the parents of the suspect in this case. 28-year-old bryan kohberger. he is facing four counts of first-degree murder in the brutal slayings of four young students. it is a shock to his family. cnn s veronica miracle has more on what the family is saying today. reporter: pamela, that family put out a statement through his public defender. his attorney. this is according to cnn and here s what it reads. it says, first and foremost, we care deeply for the four families that lost their children. we pray each day for them. we ll continue to let the legal process unfold and as a family love and support our son and brother. we have fully cooperated with law enforcement agencies in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make assumptions. we respect privacy in the mat
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