BOISE, Idaho – Prosecutors want jurors to see a selfie Bryan Kohberger took just hours after four University of Idaho students were murdered to bolster an eyewitness claim she saw a man with “bushy eyebrows” at the scene of the crime.
One of the surviving roommates at the home on King Road say she saw a man wearing all black and a mask leaving her home around the time police say four people were murdered.
She described the man as having “bushy eyebrows.” She also described him as a white man who was skinny, wearing all black and a few inches taller than her (she is 5’10”).
When she was later shown a mug shot of Kohberger, she said she couldn’t be sure it was him.
The defense has since asked the court not to allow that term to be used at trial.
Attorneys say police took pictures of the roommate’s room after the murders and that it contained “many pictures of eyes with prominent eyebrows.”
The defense said the witness had been drinking and admitted things were fuzzy. She said she saw the man for a few seconds at most.
The defense also argued that “Mr. Kohberger does not have bushy eyebrows, but the art work on D.M.’s wall and that which should draws eyes with eyebrows could be described as bushy, full, or prominent.”
The prosecution the witness was consistent in her description and that she five times uses the term “bushy” to describe his eyebrows.
In a motion filed in court this week, prosecutors also say they plan to introduce a photo taken from Kohberger’s phone that they say was taken at 10:31 a.m., six hours after the murders.
The picture shows Kohberger in a white button down shirt.
He’s standing in a bathroom with a shower behind him, giving a thumbs up to the camera.
“See State’s Exhibit S-5 [the picture]. Whether or not Bryan Kohberger can be described as having ‘bushy eyebrows’ is a factual determination to be decided by the jury,” prosecutors wrote.
Prosecutors say the roommate’s observations should be allowed at trial and she’s already been deemed competent to testify.
The judge will rule on this and other motions in the case next month.
Kohberger is scheduled to stand trial this summer in Boise. He faces the death penalty if convicted.
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