BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim’s family said.

The grieving family of 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves spent weeks waiting for an arrest in her killing. Since then, they and relatives of the three other University of Idaho students fatally stabbed on a late 2022 night in their off-campus home have endured a legal process punctuated by delay after delay.

Bryan Kohberger agreed to plead guilty in the case of the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students. Kohberger was facing death by firing squad if convicted. He is expected to be sentenced to four consecutive life terms without any possibility of parole at a future hearing.