ONE of the surviving roommates where four University of Idaho students were killed did not immediately call police because she mistook her friend for being passed out drunk, according to court documents.

On the night of the murders, Dylan Mortensen texted Bethany Funke saying she heard “strange noises and crying” and when she peeked out of her bedroom door a “man in black with a ski mask” walked by.

“I’m freaking out rn,” Mortensen told Funke, adding “I’m not kidding o [sic] am so freaked out.”

When Mortensen told Funke her cell phone’s battery was about to die, Funke instructed her to come to her room.

“Run,” she texted her, adding, “Down here.”

As Mortensen sprinted toward Funke, she passed Xana Kernodle’s room and noticed her roommate “lying on the floor of her bedroom,” court documents revealed.

However, Mortensen told investigators she believed “Xana was drunk.”

The harrowing murders are believed to have occurred at around 4:20 am on the morning of November 13, 2022.

Bryan Kohberger, 30, is accused of breaking into the off-campus home in Moscow through a second-floor balcony before allegedly making his way to Madison Mogen’s room, where she and Kaylee Goncalves were sleeping.

After allegedly stabbing Mogen and Goncalves, both 20, Kohberger made his way to 20-year-old Kernodle’s room, where she and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, were.

Mortensen and Funke did not call police for another eight hours, according to court documents.

The 911 call to Moscow Police was placed at 11:58 am on November 13.

“Something is happening, Something’s happened is our house and we don’t know what,” Funke told the police operator, according to court records.

Throughout the night, Mortensen and Funke were sending their other roommates frantic text messages not knowing they were dead.

At 4:24 am, Mortensen called Chapin, but the call went unanswered.

Three minutes later, she tried to reach Goncalves and Kernodle before texting Goncalves, “Pls answer.”

The next morning, Mortensen again sent a series of desperate follow-up messages to Goncalves and Mogen.

“Pls answer,” she texted Goncalves at 10:23 am, and then messaged Mogen, “R u up?”

KOHBERGER FACES DEATH PENALTY

The heartbreaking revelation comes after a judge ruled that prosecutors in Moscow can pursue the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted.

Prosecutors have said they plan to seek the death penalty if Kohberger, a former Ph.D. student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, about nine miles north of Moscow, is convicted.

Kohberger’s defense team sought to remove the death penalty in the case, saying their client suffers from autism spectrum disorder and therefore violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits “cruel and unusual punishments.”

The suspect’s diagnosis reduces his “culpability, negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment,” Kohberger’s defense argued.

However, Judge Steven Hippler struck down the defense’s motion, saying their argument is “equivalent to an intellectual disability for purposes of categorical exemption to the death penalty.”

Kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbings of Mogen, Goncalves, Kernodle, and Chapin.

He has pleaded not guilty on all counts.