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Law & Crime obtained bodycam footage of the Moscow Police Department first arriving to the home where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students
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The police are led through the crime scene by Hunter Johnson, the young man who found the bodies and immediately instructed the surviving roommates to leave the house
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Bodycam footage shows Johnson telling police on the scene that he then searched the house for the killer while armed with a steak knife
Body camera footage obtained by Law & Crime shows officers from the Moscow Police Department first arriving at the home where Bryan Kohberger murdered four University of Idaho students and later starting to set up a perimeter while establishing the crime scene on November 13, 2022.
It also shows the young man who sprang into action after discovering the victims’ bodies, Hunter Johnson.
The first officer arrives on the scene to learn that Hunter already searched and cleared the house, and is then led to the bodies of the victims by the young man.
Footage also shows Johnson explaining to a second officer on the scene how he grabbed a knife after discovering the bodies of Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin so that he could search the home and make sure there was no longer a threat.
Even more importantly, Johnson made sure that the two surviving roommates would not have to see the bodies of their friends by immediately instructing them to return downstairs once he saw Kernodle and Chapin.
Johnson previously spoke with PEOPLE about that day, revealing that he received a call from roommate Dylan Mortensen asking if he could come check the house.
He said that he arrived at 1122 King Road just before noon and was greeted by Mortensen and Bethany Funke, who informed him they were too afraid to go upstairs and had spent all morning in Funke’s room on the first floor.
The three then went upstairs and the second Johnson saw the bodies he immediately instructed the women to not look, go back downstairs and stand outside.
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Johnson then started to search the house, as he can be heard explaining in the body camera footage.
He then called 911 with Mortensen and waited for police at the scene.
“I was like, ‘What is going on?’” Johnson recalled while speaking with PEOPLE back in June. “’Is this real?’ Then you realize the gravity of what you just walked into. At that moment, you don’t really realize what you walked into until you really look at it and process it.”
Johnson’s quick thinking in instructing everyone to leave the house and remarkable composure as he later led officers to the bodies meant that investigators were left with a crime scene that had been left virtually untouched when they arrived that day.
The rest of the body camera footage features interviews with the hysterical and grief-stricken friends and roommates of the victims being interviewed by police.
Johnson is seen again on the body camera footage when one of the Chapin triplets arrives on the scene.
Police were not able to comment about the crime scene or confirm any of the deaths at that time, so it is Johnson who can be seen walking over to the young man and informing him that his brother had been murdered.
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