A roommate of the 4 slain University of Idaho students heard crying and saw a masked man as he fled the scene, police say in a newly filed affidavit

• A roommates of the slain University of Idaho students said she saw a man fleeing the scene.
• She told police she looked out her door when she heard crying and saw a masked man.

One of the roommates of three of the four University of Idaho students that were stabbed to death in their home in November said she saw a man fleeing the scene, according to an affidavit explaining charges against the suspect released by prosecutors in Moscow, Idaho, Thursday.

According to the affidavit, the home in which the victims were found was shared by five girls: 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves and 20-year-old Xana Kernodle — three of the four victims — and two additional roommates who spoke to police to give their accounts of that night.

The fourth victim, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, was a guest of Kernodle's the night they were killed.

Both of the surviving roommates told police they estimated the other four occupants of the house were home by 2 am local time on November 13 after a night out near campus, the affidavit said. The roommates told police that they were all asleep, or at least in their rooms, by 4 am. local time, except for Kernodle, who received a DoorDash order around that time, the affidavit said.

One of the roommates told police she was asleep in her second-floor bedroom before 4 am. and woke up to the sound of what she assumed was Goncalves playing with her dog in her third-floor bedroom.

The roommate said she thought she heard Goncalves say "there's someone here," but was unsure as phone records obtained by police show that Kernodle was on TikTok at 4:12 am, and the roommate could have heard noises from her phone, the affidavit said.At that point, the roommate opened her bedroom door to look outside but did not see anything, the affidavit said.

She told police that she opened her door and looked outside a second time when she heard crying coming from Kernodle's room. She told police she also heard a male voice say, "It's ok, I'm going to help you."

A nearby security camera picked up the sounds of crying, a dog barking, and a "loud thud" at 4:17 am, the affidavit said.

The roommate then opened her bedroom door a third time and saw "a figure clad in black clothing and a mask that covered the person's mouth and nose walking towards her," according to the affidavit.

She said the man walked past her as she stood in a "frozen shock phase." The roommate locked herself in her bedroom as the man walked toward the back sliding glass door.

She told police she did not recognize the man.

Police identified 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger, a Ph.D. student at Washington State University who lived about 10 minutes away from the crime scene, as a suspect in connection to the case.

The suspect was detained in his hometown of Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on December 30 after he and his father drove cross-country from Washington state. Police connected the suspect's DNA to the case by searching his parents' trash can at their Albrightsville family home.

He was extradited to Idaho where he appeared in court Thursday and now faces four first-degree murder charges and one count of felony burglary in connection to the case.