Bryan Kohberger sentencing live updates: Idaho college student killer sentenced to life in prison, declines to address court

Prosecutor Bill Thompson said in court that the discussion about the plea deal had to stay secret to avoid tampering potential jurors if the trial went forward. He said he respected the fact that some of the victims’ relatives did not agree with the plea deal.

As the families wept, Thompson displayed a photo of each victim in the courtroom. He listed each count and read the names of the victims: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.

“From today forward, our memories should be focused on these innocent victims whose lives were taken,” he said.

The victims not only had their own families, and not just their friends and sororities and fraternities, “but this family,” Thompson said, as he displayed the photo of the four victims and the two surviving roommates that was taken on Nov. 12, 2022, the day before the murders.

“You can see all six of these dynamic, vibrant, loving, special, innocent faces, taken together just across the street from their residence. And barely 12 hours before four of them would be brutally murdered in their sleep,” Thompson said.