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(NewsNation) —The household of Ethan Chapin, 1 of the 4 Idaho assemblage students murdered successful an off-campus location by Bryan Kohberger, volition not beryllium making a unfortunate interaction connection astatine his sentencing proceeding Wednesday.
The household had antecedently said they were contented with the plea woody prosecutors made with Kohberger earlier this month. Kohberger agreed to service 4 beingness sentences for the 2022 murders of Chapin, on with Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle.
Jim and Stacy Chapin, the parents of Ethan Chapin, said they yet person “closure” with the plea deal, successful an interrogation with the "Today Show" past week.
“If I could physically bash a handstand astatine that time, I would astir apt bash one, due to the fact that I americium truthful acceptable for it to beryllium done,” Jim Chapin said of the infinitesimal helium recovered retired astir the plea deal.
His wife, Stacy, said, “There were truthful galore kids, including our own, that had been subpoenaed that nary longer person this hanging implicit their heads. I mean, we conscionable each get to spell unrecorded our life.”
The Goncalves household opposed the deal, saying it was secretive and hurried, and are expected to marque a connection successful court.
The Chapin household appears to beryllium the lone 1 to publically denote that they volition not be Kohberger’s sentencing.
