Idaho Police Take Video From Liquor Store Amid Search For White Hyundai

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Police in Moscow, Idaho reportedly took surveillance footage from a liquor store as they continue to search for the occupant of a white car seen near where four University of Idaho students were murdered in November.

A month after Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kernodle's boyfriend Ethan Chapin were stabbed to death in an off-campus rental house, the Moscow Police Department has not yet named a suspect or made any arrests.

Earlier in December, police asked for the public's help in tracking down the person or people inside a white Hyundai Elantra seen near the house in the early morning hours of November 13, saying they could have "critical information" about the case.

NewsNation's Brian Entin reported on Wednesday that a liquor store with cameras inside and outside the building turned over surveillance footage to police within the last week.

 White 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra
Moscow Police are asking for the community’s help. Detectives are interested in speaking with the occupant(s) of a white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra, with an unknown license plate. Moscow PD

Entin said he was not sure what was captured in the footage, but that law enforcement had all the video it wanted from the store.

It comes after police on Tuesday collected surveillance video from a gas station in Moscow after a clerk reported seeing a white sedan passing by at around 3:45 a.m. on the night of the killings.

An overnight assistant manager at the gas station told Fox News Digital that she had been reviewing the surveillance footage in her downtime when she spotted the car on Monday night.

She said she took a picture of the screen and emailed the address police set up to receive tips. Investigators arrived on Tuesday morning and collected eight hours of footage, the outlet reported.

The gas station and liquor store are both located about a mile from the crime scene, but in different directions, Entin wrote on Twitter.

In an appearance on NewsNation's Banfield on Wednesday, Entin said the two locations may not be connected to the crime.

The video from the gas station "is blurry and we don't know for sure that it's a Hyundai Elantra so that could be totally unrelated," he told host Ashleigh Banfield.

"And then the liquor store, we don't have enough details. I mean, have they just been going to different stores trying to get video?... there's a lot of stores here that don't have cameras because there's not a lot of crime here.

"Are they just hitting up every store that has a camera and trying to see what they can find or is there a reason they specifically targeted this liquor store at this point? We don't know."

Entin, however, added that it is "interesting" that police had only collected surveillance footage from the liquor store within the last week.

"Did something cause them to go there just within the last week?" he asked. "Police aren't giving us those kinds of specifics."

The Moscow Police Department has been contacted for comment.

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Khaleda Rahman is Newsweek's National Correspondent based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on education and national news. Khaleda ... Read more