Idaho massacre: Former first floor tenant of murder house reveals 'nothing can be heard' from other floors
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: A former resident of the Idaho home from where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death on November 13, told it was difficult to hear activities on the second and third floors of the house from the first floor when he used to live. In an interview with Fox News, Ryan Agusta, a health worker and a local buisness owner who now lives in Genesse, Idaho, revealed that when he used to reside in the first floor of the King Road home in 2019, he generally "heard nothing" from the above floors except when his friend would watch television with a loud volume.
When he was asked whether he could hear anything from the second and third floor at the time, he answered, “I wouldn’t have heard it from downstairs.” There were six tenants listed on the lease for the residence next to Greek Row, where the student fraternity and sorority houses are situated, and close to the university's campus at the time of the November quadruple murder. Each of the home's three stories features two bedrooms and a bathroom. Due to the fact that the home was constructed on a slope in the backyard, the first level has a door that can be accessed from the driveway, and the second floor has a sliding door that can be accessed from the ground and the back patio, reported Fox News Digital.
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According to Moscow police, two of the victims' first-floor roommates survived the attack that left Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, dead early on November 13. The first-floor roommates got back at 1 am, followed by Kernodle and Chapin at 1.45 am, Goncalves and Mogen at 2 am. Authorities suspect that the murder took place between 3 am and 4 am and the four were asleep when they were fatally stabbed to death.
In 2019, when Augusta stayed there, each bedroom was rented individually and hence the house had code locks on each bedroom door, he said. It was unclear if that was still the case when the victims began their lease on June 5. Some other victims' social media posts showed images of the home that reflected that the locks had since been changed. Team Idaho & Team Washington Property Management, which oversees the property, had no comment on Friday.
Social media posts from some other victims included pictures of the house that revealed the locks had been changed since the photos were taken. On November 13, at 11.58 am, police got a 911 call from one of the two remaining roommates reporting an unconscious person; they quickly arrived at the scene and discovered the four dead students. The majority of the victims had defensive wounds in addition to multiple stab wounds.
Besides Augusta, a few other men lived there at the time, most of them were students or employees at the University of Idaho or Washington State University or workers at nearby businesses. Augusta lived there for six months and moved out in December 2019.
He said people would frequently use a "walk path" that led directly from the area of the King Road home to the nearby fraternities. "People would continue to walk up that path to that parking lot back there because they probably parked back there, and they lived in the [next-door] brown complex or something," Augusta explained. "So, yeah, people walk through that all the time. You would always hear people out front. Always trash on the ground, broken bottles — it was pretty nasty."
The former tenant said he did not have many concerns about his own safety in the neighborhood, but added, "I was concerned for everyone else's safety at 1122, but that's because there were so many outrageous parties." "I was more worried about drunken hooligans just causing a ruckus," he said.
In the meantime, Augusta has reported two tips to the police based on his personal experience around Moscow. According to police, the brutal murders were the result of "an isolated, targeted attack." University of Idaho students were given the option of staying home for Thanksgiving break instead of returning to campus with the suspect still on the loose.
Anyone with information regarding the event is asked to contact the authorities at 208-883-7180 or tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.