Bryan Kohberger has been indicted by a grand jury over the brutal murders of four Univerity of Idaho students last year – meaning he will have to enter a plea next week.

The Latah County, Idaho, grand jury indicted the former criminology student on charges of felony burglary and four counts of first-degree murder, a Latah County district clerk confirmed Wednesday.

The 28-year-old stands accused of slipping into an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, and killing Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, and 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.

Kohberger will now by arraigned in court at 9 a.m. local time Monday where he will have to enter a plea.

He is expected to plead not guilty, and if that is the case a judge will set a date for trial, according to local station KXLY.

Kohberger previously had a preliminary hearing scheduled for late June, which has been canceled.

Grand jury proceedings are closed-door events that typically remain under seal.

News of the indictment comes six months after the four students were killed inside the girls’ rented home during the early hours of November 13.

Moscow police received a call just before noon that day for a report of an “unconscious person.”

Officers responded and found the four lifeless students on the second and third floors, police said.

The victims had been stabbed multiple times between 3 and 4 a.m., and some showed signs of having tried to fight back, police said.

Two other roommates were on the bottom floor of the home at the time of the attack and survived, police said. 

One of the surviving roommates was later revealed to have come face to face with the killer hours before the police were called.

Police arrested Kohberger, who was studying at nearby Washington State University, at the end of December 2022.

Kohberger, who was living close to Moscow in Pullman, Washington, had allegedly remained on campus for weeks after the murders before making a cross-country drive with his father to his home state of Pennsylvania.