The man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in 2022 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to first-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors that spares the former criminal-justice doctoral student from the death penalty.

Bryan Kohberger, who was a graduate student at nearby Washington State University, pleaded guilty to murder in the killings that terrified the Idaho campus and set off a nationwide search, which ended weeks later when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the 2022 murders that shook the University of Idaho campus. Under a plea agreement, he avoids the death penalty.