Kathryn Marguerite Katy Benoit was 22 when she was shot and killed outside her off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, on August 22, 2011. A University of Idaho graduate student in psychology, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint in June 2011 alleging that a former assistant professor, 31-year-old Ernesto Bustamante, had threatened her with a gun on three occasions and had reported those threats to the Moscow Police Department.

Bustamante resigned from the university on August 19, 2011. On the evening of August 22, Benoit stepped outside for a cigarette while with friends and was confronted and shot multiple times. A neighbor saw a man leave in a black rental car. A manhunt led police to a hotel room at the University Inn-Best Western; officers later found Bustamante dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators recovered several firearms, including a .45 caliber handgun identified as the murder weapon, medications for bipolar disorder and severe anxiety, and saved files on his computer containing Benoit’s class schedule and home address.

Does anyone have memories of Kathryn on campus or in Moscow who can add detail about her life or the weeks before August 22, 2011?