Candles and flowers are left at a makeshift memorial honoring 4 slain University of Idaho college students exterior the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Tuesday.

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Candles and flowers are left at a makeshift memorial honoring 4 slain University of Idaho college students exterior the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Tuesday.

Nicholas Okay. Geranios/AP

BOISE, Idaho — Police within the faculty city of Moscow stated Wednesday they haven’t recognized a suspect or discovered a weapon within the weekend slayings of 4 University of Idaho college students in a rental home close to campus.

Authorities proceed to consider the assault was focused however walked again a earlier assertion that there was no risk to the general public.

“Investigators are working to follow up on all the leads and identify a person of interest,” Moscow Police Chief James Fry stated at a information convention. “We do not have a suspect at this time, and that individual is still out there. We cannot say that there is no threat to the community.”

“We need to be aware of our surroundings,” Fry stated.

All 4 victims have been stabbed with a knife, the chief reported. There was no signal of compelled entry, and a door was discovered open by the primary law enforcement officials to reach. Two different individuals have been discovered alive and unharmed within the massive house.

“I’m not going to go into what they shared,” Fry stated.

“We’re focusing on everyone,” he added. “We’re still following up with everyone that could have been in that area.”

Some of the victims’ relations have been urging tight-lipped police to launch extra details about the killings and to disclose why they stated there was no ongoing hazard.

Fry defended these statements, saying, “We take the totality of the things we see … and make the best decision we can. I’m not going to expand on that.”

The victims — three ladies and one man, all shut pals — have been discovered lifeless Sunday afternoon by police responding to a report of an unconscious individual on the house. Officials stated they have been seemingly killed a number of hours earlier.

Fry wouldn’t say who it was that known as 911.

The victims have been recognized as Madison Mogan, 21, from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Kaylee Goncalves, 21, from Rathdrum, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, from Avondale, Arizona; and Ethan Chapin, 20, from Conway, Washington.

Autopsies have been carried out Wednesday in close by Spokane, Washington, and Idaho State Police and the FBI have been additionally working the case, Fry stated

The household of Goncalves issued a warning to whoever was behind the killings.

“To whomever is responsible, we will find you. We will never stop. The pain you caused has fueled our hatred and sealed your fate,” the household stated in a tweeted assertion. “Justice will be served.”

Moscow is a city of about 25,000 within the Idaho Panhandle, some 80 miles south of Spokane.

News of the slayings prompted most of the 11,000 college students to go away the Idaho campus early for Thanksgiving break.

University of Idaho president Scott Green additionally spoke on the information convention and stated the college will stay open the remainder of the week as a result of some college students discovered consolation in being on campus with school and classmates. But the college was additionally giving excused absences to anybody who feels extra comfy leaving early.

“We will support each other as we grieve,” Green stated, his voice breaking as he learn out the 4 names. “We just want justice for these victims.”

Aubrie Goncalves, Kaylee’s sister, posted a message on Instagram urging college students to go away.

“Your grades are severely less important than your lives. I wish all the students of U of I safety and peace,” she wrote a number of hours earlier than the police information convention. “You guys are not safe until this sicko is found. If the person who did this is capable of killing four innocent people, they are capable of killing more.”