The 22-year-old nursing student was killed in February 2024 while out on a run in Georgia, with Jose Ibarra accused of her murder.
The illegal immigrant accused of murdering University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley sat in court for the first day of his trial Friday and heard the 911 call her friends made reporting her missing.Jose Ibarra, 26, is charged with killing the 22-year-old in February after she went for a run around the campus in Athens, Georgia, where Ibarra was a resident.
The 26-year-old was living less than a mile from the campus at the time, but his history in the U.S. soon became a focal point of Riley's case.Ibarra arrived in the U.S. in September 2022, having crossed the southwest border illegally in El Paso, Texas. Immigration officials detained him but later released him, while his case was pending.The suspect was later arrested in New York in August 2023. It is not clear at which point between that date and February 2024 he arrived in Georgia.
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