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ALL classes canceled after four University of Idaho students are killed in off-campus housing, as police investigate their deaths as a homicide

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d20&semi;font-size&colon;18px"><strong>Four University of Idaho students are seen smiling in photograph hours before they were found dead in off-campus housing on Sunday<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d20&semi;font-size&colon;18px"><strong>Police consider their deaths as a homicide and all classes are canceled<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;291d20&semi;font-size&colon;18px"><strong> Dead students identified as  20-year-old Ethan Chapin&comma; 21-year-old Madison Mogen&comma; 20-year-old Xana Kernodle and 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;Madison-Mogen-top-left-Kaylee-Goncalvesbottom-left-Ethan-Chapin-center-and-Xana-Kernodle-right-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-422286" width&equals;"768" height&equals;"1281"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong> In this cropped image four University of Idaho students Madison Mogen&comma; 21&comma; &lbrack;top left&rsqb;&comma; Kaylee Goncalves&comma; 21&comma; bottom left&comma; Ethan Chapin&comma; 20&comma; center&comma; and Xana Kernodle&comma; 20&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; are seen smiling in a photo taken just hours before they were found dead in off-campus housing on Sunday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The four University of Idaho students who were found dead in off-campus housing Sunday have been identified&period;<br>According to Moscow police&comma; 20-year-old Ethan Chapin&comma; 21-year-old Madison Mogen&comma; 20-year-old Xana Kernodle and 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves died in a homicide at their off-campus house on King Road&period;<br>University officials say Chapin&comma; of Conway&comma; Washington&comma; was a freshman at the school studying recreation&comma; sport and tourism management&comma; and Kernodle&comma; of Avondale&comma; Arizona&comma; was a junior majoring in marketing&period; <br>She was a member of the Phi Beta Phi sorority&period;<br>The two seemed to be dating&comma; according to their social media profiles&period; <br>Mogen&comma; of Coeur d&&num;8217&semi;Alene&comma; Idaho&comma; meanwhile&comma; was a senior also majoring in marketing&comma; who was also a member of the Phi Beta Phi sorority&period;<br>And Goncalves&comma; of Rathdrum&comma; Idaho&comma; was a senior majoring in general studies in the College of Letters&comma; Arts and Social Sciences&period; She was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority&period;<br>Just hours before her death&comma; Goncalves posted pictures of her with Mogen&comma; Kernodle and Chapin outside a house&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;Xana-Kernodle-top-with-Ethan-Chapin-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-422292" width&equals;"833" height&equals;"1036"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Xana Kernodle &lbrack;top&rsqb;&comma; posted photos of her and Ethan Chapin on October 29 to wish him a happy birthday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;Kaylee-Goncalves-left-and-Madison-Mogen-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-422295" width&equals;"838" height&equals;"1223"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Kaylee Goncalves &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; of Rathdrum&comma; Idaho and &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; Madison Mogen of Coeur d&&num;8217&semi;Alene&comma; Idaho&comma; were good friends despite being in separate sororities&period; Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen belonged to the same sorority<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Goncalves&comma; of Rathdrum&comma; Idaho&comma; left&comma; and Mogen&comma; of Coeur d&&num;8217&semi;Alene&comma; Idaho were good friends despite being in separate sororities&period;<br>Chapin&comma; of Conway&comma; Washington&comma; and Xana Kernodle&comma; of Avondale&comma; Arizona&comma; appeared to be in a relationship before they were killed&period; <br>Kernodle and Mogen were both members of the Phi Beta Phi sorority studying marketing&period; Chapin was just a freshman at the school&comma; university officials say&comma; while Goncalves was a senior majoring in general studies in the College of Letters&comma; Arts and Social Sciences<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;Ethan-Chapin-left-and-Xana-Kernodle-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-422300"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Ethan Chapin&comma; of Conway&comma; Washington&comma; and Xana Kernodle&comma; of Avondale&comma; Arizona&comma; appeared to be in a relationship before they were killed<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;Four-Univ-Of-Idaho-students-killed-in-off-campus-housing-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-422315" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"471"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Police investigate at the scene of deaths of four students of the University of Idaho&comma; Moscow&comma; Idaho&comma; at an off-campus housing on Sunday <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Police in Idaho said they responded to a call of an unconscious person at the home just before noon on Sunday&period;<br>When they arrived at the scene&comma; they found all four people dead in a &&num;8216&semi;house that was converted into an apartment&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Police Capt&period; Tyson Berrett told the <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;idahostatesman&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;community&sol;boise&sol;article268712027&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Idaho Statesman&period;<&sol;a><br>He later announced that all four students were students at the university&comma; which the school also disclosed in a news release&period; <br>It remains unclear how the victims died&comma; but local police are considering it a homicide&period; <br>Police have not taken any suspects into custody as of Monday&comma; but say they do not believe there is a threat to the rest of the school community&period;<br>Authorities are now asking anyone with information about the apparent murders to call &lpar;208&rpar; 882 -2677&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;Four-Univ-Of-Idaho-students-killed-in-off-campus-housing-2-1024x683&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-422319"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Police said they responded to a call of an unconscious person at the home In Moscow&comma; Idaho&comma; just before noon on Sunday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;uidaho&period;edu&sol;news" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">statement <&sol;a>on Monday&comma; school President Scott Greene shared how he and his wife are heartbroken by the news&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Words cannot adequately describe the light these students brought to this world or ease the depth of suffering we feel at their passing under these tragic circumstances&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he wrote&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;No one feels that loss more than their families and friends&period; The university is working directly with those affected and is committed to supporting all students&comma; families and employees as this event undeniably touches all of us&period; &&num;8216&semi;<br>He added that he is asking all professors to &&num;8216&semi;be empathetic&comma; flexible and to work with our students who desire to return home to spend time with their families&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;We do not know the investigation timeline&comma; but we will continue to communicate to campus as we learn more&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;image-34&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-422321" width&equals;"835" height&equals;"536"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>When they arrived at the scene&comma; they found all four people dead in a &&num;8216&semi;house that was converted into an apartment&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The school originally posted an alert on social media at 3&period;07pm Sunday saying police were investigating a homicide nearby&period;<br>The post said the suspect was not known at the time&comma; and school officials advised students to stay away from the area and shelter in place&period;<br>By 3&period;46pm&comma; the school put out a second alert that said police did not believe there was an active threat&comma; and the &&num;8216&semi;shelter in place&&num;8217&semi; advisory was lifted&period;<br>Still&comma; school officials warned students to &&num;8216&semi;remain vigilant&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>In an ensuing email&comma; university officials told student that all Monday classes would be canceled &&num;8216&semi;out of respect for those fellow Vandals&comma;&&num;8217&semi; referring to the school&&num;8217&semi;s mascot&period;<br>The university said counselors would be available for students at the campus counseling center&comma; while employees could access assistance through an employee assistance program&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;University-of-Idaho-2-1024x576&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-422313"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>The University of Idaho said all classes were canceled after the four students were killed in off-campus housing&comma; counselors would be available for students at the campus counseling center&comma; while employees could access assistance through an employee assistance program<&sol;strong> <&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The university said counselors would be available for students at the campus counseling center&comma; while employees could access assistance through an employee assistance program&period;<br>Green urged people to reach out if they were concerned about classmates or coworkers&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;An event of this magnitude can understandably have significant impacts on those left behind&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he wrote&period; &&num;8216&semi;As Vandals&comma; we must come together and lift each other up&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Following the news of their deaths&comma; students flocked to Chapin&&num;8217&semi;s Instagram page expressing their grief&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Too young too soon&period; Fly high baby&excl; We’ll be there soon&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Jacob Perez wrote on his most recent post documenting events from his freshman year&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Forever grateful to have you in my life&comma;&&num;8217&semi; another wrote&period;<br>Chapin appeared to have been dating Kernodle&comma; who posted photos of them on October 29 as she wished him a happy birthday&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Happiest of birthdays to Ethan Chapin&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she wrote&period; &&num;8216&semi;Life is so much better with you in it&comma; love you&excl;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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