Idaho murder suspect Kohberger's Pennsylvania classmates say he was 'bright,' awkward, bullied in school

ALBRIGHTSVILLE, Pennsylvania – Former Pennsylvania classmates of Idaho execution fishy Bryan Christopher Kohberger said helium was an intelligence who "was precise funny successful the mode the caput works" but bullied for his value and socially awkwardness.

Kohberger was arrested thousands of miles from Idaho, successful Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, aboriginal Friday greeting and charged with 4 counts of execution for the deaths of University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Madison Mogen, 21.

Police said helium was a postgraduate pupil astatine Washington State University, and helium had been surviving successful Pullman astatine the time. He's successful Monroe County, Pennsylvania jailhouse portion he's waiting to beryllium extradited to Idaho.

In his location state, helium was known arsenic a genius who was socially awkward and had a pugnacious clip picking up connected societal cues, a mates of his erstwhile classmates told Fox News Digital.

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Sarah Healey, who went to Pleasant Valley High School with Kohberger, said helium was shy and kept to himself and a tiny radical of friend, but immoderate of their classmates – particularly girls – mocked Kohberger and threw things astatine him.

"It was bad," Healey said. "There was decidedly thing disconnected astir him, similar we couldn't archer precisely what it was. I retrieve 1 clip erstwhile I was walking successful the hallway, and helium stopped maine and was like, ‘Do you privation to bent out?’"

At that point, they didn't cognize each different oregon tally successful the aforesaid societal circles, said Healey. 

"It was conscionable weird," she said. "But Bryan was bullied a lot, and I ne'er got a accidental to accidental thing to support him due to the fact that helium would ever tally away."

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Healey said she heard different girls archer Kohberger successful their precocious schoolhouse to "go away, creep" oregon "I don't privation to bent retired with you."

"I honestly deliberation that's what led up to this due to the fact that helium didn't get the due help, and it was chiefly females that bullied him," Healey said.

Despite the bullying, she said Kohberger's grades were ever bully and helium "was precise into his books." 

That continued astatine Pennsylvania's Northampton Community College, according to 1 of Kohberger's friends, who requested to stay anonymous due to the fact that of her job.

"He's really, truly intelligent. A agleam kid … idiosyncratic who stood retired adjacent successful honors and high-level classes," his NCC person said. 

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This photograph provided by Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Facility shows Bryan Kohberger. (Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Facility via AP)

Healey and Kohberger's NCC person some utilized the connection "shocked" to picture their reactions erstwhile they heard astir instrumentality enforcement's aboriginal Friday greeting raid connected his parents' Albrightsville, Pennsylvania location and his consequent arrest. 

Kohberger's NCC person said she recovered retired that helium was successful custody portion she was astatine work, and she took a fewer moments to herself due to the fact that she began to teardrop up.

He was "awkward and intelligent, but not idiosyncratic you would peg for violent," she said.

"I privation to speech to him present and inquire him what happened? What went wrong? What was going done your head? What were you feeling? What was going on? You know, wherefore did this occur?" 

His person said helium didn't interact with galore radical connected field but was affable with her and they talked "for hours" astir his struggles with heroin addiction and his value and kept successful interaction aft they graduated. 

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The past clip she spoke to him was connected Facebook a small implicit 2 years ago. They talked astir their futures and what they wanted to do. 

"I was looking astatine my Master's program, and helium was talking astir whether helium was going to bash the forensic science oregon criminology oregon both, but helium knew helium was going for a PhD," she said.

"And I wasn't definite what I would person to bash my Ph.D. programs, if I was going to bash a masters oregon Ph.D., truthful we had had a full speech astir that, and that was our past conversation.

"For me, I conscionable consciousness similar helium was ne'er listened to oregon heard by his peers. So, you know, the information that I sat and listened to him and heard him and talked with him, that was different.

"And helium was ever apt to person those conversations with me. And our conversations, whether they were successful the hallways astatine school, oregon connected Messenger, they would past you know, an hour, 2 hours."

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She got to cognize him and recognize during their talks and classes wherever she would astir construe for him. 

She explained that helium was "genuinely curious" and believed helium lived a sheltered life, truthful helium asked questions oregon said things to different radical that they construed arsenic being offensive.

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"It wasn't meant to beryllium offensive," she said. "It was similar childlike curiosity from an adult, who you would deliberation would cognize amended than to inquire a question, but it was specified a genuine curiosity. And that's wherefore I thought helium was truthful sheltered, that helium conscionable had nary thought astir these things. And I truly conscionable don't deliberation helium knew better."

Those comments were echoed by a classmate astatine Washington State's criminology and transgression justness postgraduate program. 

"I had honestly conscionable pegged him arsenic being ace awkward," Ben Roberts told The Tribune Democrat. Roberts, who said that helium took respective courses with Kohberger, sought to beryllium seen arsenic intelligence and "was ever looking for a mode to acceptable in."

"One happening helium would ever do, astir without fail, was find the astir analyzable mode to explicate something," Roberts told The Tribune Democrat. "He had to marque definite you knew that helium knew it."