Police arrested an ex-con killer this week just over a mile from the house where four University of Idaho college students were killed in their sleep last month.
of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, about 1.3 miles downhill off of the next crossroad. Police found all four dead at a house just yards off campus around noon on Nov. 13.
Before going outside to meet Lee, Leonard grabbed a handgun out of a safe in his bedroom and told his wife to call police if she heard shots, according to court documents.He went outside and met Lee, who accused him of sleeping with his girlfriend. The first shot struck him in the heart and was determined to be the fatal blow by Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, the pathologist who performed the autopsy. He found the second and third shots to have been inflicted to his leg and face postmortem. TheWitnesses later told police that Leonard backed up his truck before they arrived, a move they perceived as"messing up the crime scene." One alleged that Leonard asked him for a shovel in an attempt to hide the body.
Leonard's current charges include domestic violence battery with traumatic injury, aggravated assault, attempted strangulation and injury to a child.on King Road just steps off campus between 3 and 4 a.m. on Nov. 13. Two other roommates were on the ground level and escaped harm, according to authorities.
The belongings of the victims of the University of Idaho quadruple homicide are removed from the house in Moscow, Idaho, on Wednesday.
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