Xana Kernodle ‘fought’ the killer and ‘grabbed a knife repeatedly’ before being killed

University of Idaho victim Xana Kernodle is said to have fought off her attacker and repeatedly grabbed the knife after her friends were stabbed to death, sources claim.

Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, who were found in the same bed on November 13, were murdered first before the killer, allegedly Bryan Kohberger, brutally murdered Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20. .

sources said news nation that Kernodle’s fingers were nearly amputated from grabbing the knife and repeatedly counterattacking.

The information from the source matches what Kernodle’s father, Jeffrey Kernodle, revealed in November.

Jeffrey Kernodle said SBC 5 that autopsy reports showed that his daughter’s skin showed ‘bruises, torn by the knife’.

She and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, both 20, were killed second only to Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, who were found in the same bed.

A source told News Nation that he nearly had his fingers chopped off defending himself, which was in line with an earlier report from Kernodle’s father, Jeffrey, revealed in November. The father revealed that the autopsy showed that her daughter’s skin showed ‘bruises, torn by the knife’

Recently, it was revealed that three University of Idaho students claimed to have seen Kohberger in the student union ‘sitting by himself’ weeks before the murders.

A student who identified herself as Chelsea, a sophomore, said she saw Kohberger, a student at nearby Washington State University, eating alone in the food court just weeks before the Nov. 13 killings.

“He was the staring type,” he said. He wouldn’t look away if you caught him staring at you.

As if he wanted you to notice that he was looking at you. She didn’t smile, she didn’t nod, she didn’t say anything. I just looked.

chelsea said PEOPLE that Kohberger’s look was “making her uncomfortable” and that she and her friends went out to eat “because we wanted to get away from him.”

Another student at the school said she, too, felt “uncomfortable” by Kohberger’s look after allegedly bumping into him multiple times on campus.

The four University of Idaho students were murdered in their off-campus home on November 13.

She said that because the school is relatively small, she came to recognize people on campus and was sure she had seen Kohberger on several occasions.

“I definitely saw it more than once,” she told PEOPLE. “He was very quiet and very intense, watching. He made me feel uncomfortable.

The alleged sighting of Kohberger on campus comes after police said they believed the suspect in the quadruple murders spent time on the University of Idaho campus before carrying out the brutal murders.

The university hired more campus police officers and increased the number of officers on the ground following the slayings, and despite Kohberger’s arrest, officials said the increased enforcement will continue.

The University of Idaho did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment about the alleged Kohberger sightings.

Students at the University of Idaho said they saw suspect Bryan Kohberger on campus before the slayings.

Investigators are seen removing a bloody mattress from the home on December 30.

The alleged sightings at the University of Idaho would not be the first time that women have accused Kohberger of making them uncomfortable or scaring them.

Jordan Serulneck, 34, who runs Seven Siren Brewing Company in Kohberger’s native Pennsylvania, said the suspect had problematic interactions with women at his bar.

serulneck said nbc The workers labeled Kohberger in their systems as a guy who “makes creepy comments” and said he once called a staff member “ab***h” for refusing his advances.

Reading his staff notes on Kohberger, Central Valley’s Serulneck said: ‘Hey, this guy makes creepy comments, keep an eye on him. He’ll have two or three beers and then get a little too comfortable.

The four students were killed between 3 and 4 a.m. on November 13 (pictured: Kernodle and Mogen)

Kernodle was found in her bedroom with her boyfriend the night of the murder.

Kohberger, who is studying criminology at WSU, has been charged with the murders of four University of Idaho students.

Officers responding to the scene of the gory crime on November 13 quickly discovered a K-Bar knife sheath next to the bodies of Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.

The unsealed court documents show the painstaking work done by officers, who matched the DNA found in the pod to that of Kohberger by comparing it to his father’s DNA, which he matched 99.9998 percent and identified through a genetic genealogy website.

Court documents recently revealed that police discovered a pillow covered in “blood” in Kohberger’s Washington apartment.

A new search warrant, made public on January 17, shows that police also found several strands of hair, including one suspected to be from an animal, a black glove, a computer tower, and an unnamed item with a collection of “dark red spots”.