Police investigating the brutal slaughter of 4 University of Idaho students seem like looking for a “Rambo”-style knife within the slayings, a neighborhood store owner said.
Moscow Constructing Supply general manager Scott Jutte told the Idaho Statesman that a police officer stopped by the retailer greater than once this week to inquire in regards to the possible sale of a KA-BAR brand combat blade.
“They were specifically asking whether or not we stock KA-BAR-style knives, which we don’t,” Jutte told the paper. “If we did, we could’ve reviewed surveillance footage. Nevertheless it wasn’t something I could help them with.”
He said the tactical knives utilized by US Marines within the Nineteen Forties are “much like the knife Rambo has,” Jutte added, referring to the Vietnam vet character famously played by actor Sylvester Stallone.
“(KA-BAR) is more of a combat knife. It’s probably not something that we focus on,” added Jutte, who said his store sells mostly hunting knives.
On its website, KA-BAR, of Olean, Recent York, describes its signature blade as its “most famous knife.”
The “knives became so well recognized for his or her quality and so abundant in number that ‘Kabar’ became the name by which many referred to this knife pattern, no matter whether the knife was manufactured on the actual KA-BAR facility,” it says.
“Today, the unique USMC Fighting and Utility Knife stays the primary alternative for a lot of men and ladies of service who carry it as their personal knife option,” the corporate adds.
On Wednesday, Moscow police Capt. Anthony Dahlinger would neither confirm nor deny to the Statesman that investigators from the department visited the shop or interviewed Jutte.
“I can’t speak to that. I don’t have any recent information to share,” he told the paper.
Police didn’t reply to the request for comment Thursday.
News in regards to the knife comes after Moscow Police Chief James Fry provided an update in regards to the shocking crime, saying a murder weapon has not yet been found.
The murders of Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, rocked the college community and prompted many students to vacate campus ahead of Thanksgiving break.
No suspect or motive has been determined within the slayings.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that one other incident involving a knife on the University of Idaho occurred in September when campus security sent out a so-called “Vandal Alert” to staff and students, Fox News reported.
Using the topic line “Threat with Knife,” the alert from Sept. 12 read: “The Moscow Police Department received a report that a bunch of scholars was walking between the Steam Plant parking zone (Lot #14) and the Student Recreation Center on Paradise Path and were threatened by an individual with a knife,” in line with the news outlet.
“No individual was harmed within the incident, but campus community members are advised to be cautious,” added the alert, which a concerned parent shared with Fox News Digital.
The suspect was described as a person between the ages of 18 and 22, wearing black clothes and a black baseball cap, and riding a mountain bike.
Police declined to comment to Fox News in regards to the incident, whether the suspect was caught, or whether the incident could possibly be connected to the gruesome murder that occurred a couple of mile away.
“I haven’t any information on that at the moment,” Dahlinger told Fox News Digital, which said a faculty spokesperson didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
In his update Wednesday, Fry said two roommates were contained in the off-campus home where the 4 students were found dead and that the 911 call wasn’t made until hours later.
He also backtracked about how concerned the community must be about an ongoing threat after authorities originally said the general public was not at risk following the quadruple homicide.
Police investigating the brutal slaughter of 4 University of Idaho students seem like looking for a “Rambo”-style knife within the slayings, a neighborhood store owner said.
Moscow Constructing Supply general manager Scott Jutte told the Idaho Statesman that a police officer stopped by the retailer greater than once this week to inquire in regards to the possible sale of a KA-BAR brand combat blade.
“They were specifically asking whether or not we stock KA-BAR-style knives, which we don’t,” Jutte told the paper. “If we did, we could’ve reviewed surveillance footage. Nevertheless it wasn’t something I could help them with.”
He said the tactical knives utilized by US Marines within the Nineteen Forties are “much like the knife Rambo has,” Jutte added, referring to the Vietnam vet character famously played by actor Sylvester Stallone.
“(KA-BAR) is more of a combat knife. It’s probably not something that we focus on,” added Jutte, who said his store sells mostly hunting knives.
On its website, KA-BAR, of Olean, Recent York, describes its signature blade as its “most famous knife.”
The “knives became so well recognized for his or her quality and so abundant in number that ‘Kabar’ became the name by which many referred to this knife pattern, no matter whether the knife was manufactured on the actual KA-BAR facility,” it says.
“Today, the unique USMC Fighting and Utility Knife stays the primary alternative for a lot of men and ladies of service who carry it as their personal knife option,” the corporate adds.
On Wednesday, Moscow police Capt. Anthony Dahlinger would neither confirm nor deny to the Statesman that investigators from the department visited the shop or interviewed Jutte.
“I can’t speak to that. I don’t have any recent information to share,” he told the paper.
Police didn’t reply to the request for comment Thursday.
News in regards to the knife comes after Moscow Police Chief James Fry provided an update in regards to the shocking crime, saying a murder weapon has not yet been found.
The murders of Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, rocked the college community and prompted many students to vacate campus ahead of Thanksgiving break.
No suspect or motive has been determined within the slayings.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that one other incident involving a knife on the University of Idaho occurred in September when campus security sent out a so-called “Vandal Alert” to staff and students, Fox News reported.
Using the topic line “Threat with Knife,” the alert from Sept. 12 read: “The Moscow Police Department received a report that a bunch of scholars was walking between the Steam Plant parking zone (Lot #14) and the Student Recreation Center on Paradise Path and were threatened by an individual with a knife,” in line with the news outlet.
“No individual was harmed within the incident, but campus community members are advised to be cautious,” added the alert, which a concerned parent shared with Fox News Digital.
The suspect was described as a person between the ages of 18 and 22, wearing black clothes and a black baseball cap, and riding a mountain bike.
Police declined to comment to Fox News in regards to the incident, whether the suspect was caught, or whether the incident could possibly be connected to the gruesome murder that occurred a couple of mile away.
“I haven’t any information on that at the moment,” Dahlinger told Fox News Digital, which said a faculty spokesperson didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
In his update Wednesday, Fry said two roommates were contained in the off-campus home where the 4 students were found dead and that the 911 call wasn’t made until hours later.
He also backtracked about how concerned the community must be about an ongoing threat after authorities originally said the general public was not at risk following the quadruple homicide.
