Surviving Idaho roommate Dylan Mortensen is seen outside her parents’ home

In the throes of losing three of her roommates to a tragic murder, University of Idaho student Dylan Mortensen has been seen for the first time since it was revealed she saw the killer at the scene.

Exclusive photos from DailyMail.com show the 19-year-old sophomore returning to her family’s Boise home after coffee on Sunday morning.

Dressed casually in shorts despite the bracing 44-degree weather, Mortensen pinned up her blonde hair for a brief outing at a Starbucks near her home. She also wore a navy blue wool top.

Mortensen and Bethany Funke, also 19, survived the November 13 bloodbath but lost three of their roommates: Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, in the ferocious stroke. Xana’s boyfriend, 21-year-old Ethan Chapin, was also killed.

Last Thursday, a police affidavit released ahead of alleged killer Bryan Kohberger’s first court appearance in Moscow, Idaho, revealed that Mortensen spotted the killer, describing him as being at least 5-foot-10 tall and wearing a pair of of ‘busy eyebrows’.

Kohberger, 28, a doctoral student at Washington State University, has been charged with all four murders and one count of robbery. Idaho is a death penalty state.

In the affidavit, police described how Mortensen froze in fear early on November 13 after seeing the killer, having opened his bedroom door after hearing noises in the six-bedroom rental house.

She had answered the door twice before, once after hearing Kaylee say someone was in the house and again after the sound of crying came from Xana’s bedroom.

The teen told police she had locked herself in her second-floor bedroom after the encounter with the killer who was wearing a ski mask at the time but did not call 911.

Police were not called to the scene until 11:58 a.m., seven and a half hours after the students’ deaths.

Funke is believed to have slept through the attack in his downstairs bedroom.

According to the affidavit, Mortensen said he was woken around 4 a.m. by what sounded like Goncalves playing with his dog in a third-floor room.

A short time later, he heard Goncalves say “there is someone here,” the disturbing affidavit reveals. Mortensen looked through his bedroom door but saw nothing.

The second time she opened the door she heard a male voice say something to the effect of, ‘okay, I’ll help you.’

At 4:17 a.m., a neighbor’s security camera picked up audio of “what sounded like voices or a groan followed by a thud.” A dog can also be heard barking on numerous occasions.

Mortensen “said she opened the door a third time after hearing the crying and saw a figure dressed in black clothing and a mask covering the person’s mouth and nose walking towards her.”

The family of victim Kaylee Goncalves has defended Mortensen’s actions.

Attorney Shanon Gray, who represents the Goncalves family, said Mortensen was likely “scared to death” when she encountered the man, insisting she was “still a victim in this case.”

“The fact that she was able to provide some additional identification, I think is beneficial in this case,” Gray said. ‘She was able to give, more or less, the type and the construction and what [the suspect] looked a bit: bushy eyebrows, the like.

The Goncalves are the latest to defend Mortensen after the roommate of a woman who suffered a brutal attack in 1992 said she, too, had a delayed response during a similar scenario.

Alanna Zabel, 50, has revealed the “disturbing similarities” of the attack she survived more than 30 years ago, exclusively telling DailyMail.com that living with “survivor’s guilt” has haunted her all her life.

He has criticized Mortensen’s critics, saying that people “don’t know how I would react” in a similar situation.

Zabel lived in a house with five sorority sisters off the University at Buffalo campus and said she, too, had a late response and felt guilty that she fell asleep despite hearing heavy, choked breathing in her roommate’s room. fourth grade and only called the police the next day.

“Someone was stalking us and came in one night while we were partying and drinking late,” he said. ‘They brutally beat and raped my roommate. I found her six hours later and she almost died.

Zabel said he can relate to also having a late response while reconstructing the horrific 1992 attack.

“For those who are critical of the roommate who saw you inside the house and didn’t call the police, I completely understand, and I’m also distraught that he didn’t,” she said.

“But I can also say that you don’t know how you would react or respond in a similar situation until you are there.”

I can imagine the guilt this surviving roommate in Idaho must feel. I also called 911 reporting an unconscious person because he did not understand the extent of what was happening.

He went on to say that when you live in an environment, like college, where having strangers in your house becomes normal, it’s hard to “understand” a tragedy like this.

You don’t want to believe it’s true. Being so young I can imagine that she went into shock, it is a real defense mechanism to survive, ”she said.

“I pray for his healing and for all the families involved in this senseless tragedy. I ask people not to judge her, she will judge herself for the rest of her life.’