One of the surviving roommates of the four University of Idaho students allegedly killed by Bryan Kohberger didn’t immediately call police because she thought her friend was passed out drunk – not realizing she was likely already dead, a new court ruling reveals.

After a night out partying, Dylan Mortensen “heard strange noises and crying” before opening her bedroom door and seeing “a man dressed in black with a ski mask on walking by her bedroom door,” around 4:00 a.m., according to a new decision by Boise District Court Judge Steven Hippler.

Mortensen then got on the phone with the other surviving roommate, Bethany Funke, and texted furiously. “I’m freaking out rn,” she wrote, adding “I’m not kidding o [sic] am so freaked out.”

“So am I,” Funke texted her back before encouraging Mortensen to come to her room.

The roommate “began running toward” Funke’s room, and “on her way, she noticed Xana [Kernodle] lying on the floor of her bedroom,” but Mortensen “thought Xana was drunk,” the judge’s order explains, citing the surviving roommates’ communications.

Funke and Mortensen locked themselves in the room and didn’t end up calling 911 until roughly eight hours after Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, and Ethan Chapin were slain in their off-campus housing in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022.

But the duo sent many messages and attempted to call the other roommates before eventually emerging from Funke’s room and trying to piece together what had happened. 

Mortensen texted Goncalves at 4:32 a.m., “Pls answer,” and texted Mogen at 10:23 a.m. “R u up?” and then around 11:20 a.m. she texted Goncalves again saying, “R u up??”

Mortensen’s friend and the friend’s boyfriend came over at her request to check the 1122 King Road house because she was scared, Hippler’s decision says.

Mortensen, Funke, and the two other friends all went up to the second floor of the house, where Kernodle was still lying on the floor. 

“I just started bawling because I thought she had just like — I don’t even know, I thought maybe she was still just drunk and all asleep on the floor,” the ruling says, citing Mortensen’s grand jury testimony.

The friend’s boyfriend told all the women to “get out,” and so the trio waited outside until he came out, looking pale white, and “told them to call 911.

Finally, at 11:56 a.m., Funke called 911, saying, “something is happening. Something’s happened in our house and we don’t know what,” the court papers reveal.

The operator spoke to Funke, Mortensen, the pal’s boyfriend, and another woman during the chaotic call.

At one point, Mortensen told the operator that Kernodle is “not waking up,” the ruling said.

Soon after, the ambulance arrived.

The contents of text messages and a 911 call, which lay out Mortensen and Funke’s actions following the killings, were revealed in Hippler’s order about what evidence could be presented to the jury at the upcoming August trial and what evidence would be blocked as hearsay.

Hippler found that much of the communications would be allowed into trial as long as prosecutors do their part to properly set the evidence up to be presented in witness testimony.

The judge ruled last week that Mortensen is allowed to testify about seeing an intruder with “bushy eyebrows” and a black ski mask walk past her room. 

Prosecutors have said the “bushy eyebrows” description is key witness testimony because it matches Kohberger’s appearance. They’ve also revealed they have evidence showing that months prior to the killings, Kohberger bought a ski mask at a Dick’s Sporting Goods Store.

Kohberger has pleaded not guilty in the quadruple homicide case and could face the death penalty if convicted.