Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra will return to court Monday for the second day of his trial. Ibarra is accused of attacking and killing Riley on her run on Feb. 22.
Jose Ibarra, the suspect accused of murdering Augusta University student Laken Riley in February while she was on a morning run, will return to court Monday for the second day of his trial. Prosecutors say Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, attacked and killed Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, while she was jogging along trails near Lake Herrick on the University of Georgia campus in Athens the morning of Feb. 22.
Ross said Ibarra then encountered Riley on her typical morning run and attacked her. 'When Laken Riley refused to be his rape victim, he bashed her head in with a rock repeatedly,' Ross said. Ibarra and his brothers, also in the United States illegally from Venezuela, lived in an apartment building less than a half mile from the on-campus park where Riley was running. The defendant's attorney, Dustin Kirby, argued in his opening statement that evidence would not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ibarra killed Riley. He said it would take 'gymnastics' for the prosecution to argue Ibarra killed Riley with what he described as 'circumstantial evidence.
Ibarra illegally crossed into the United States through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, ICE and DHS sources previously told Fox News. His older brother, Diego Ibarra, who worked briefly in a UGA cafeteria before his arrest in February, is charged with green card fraud and had ties to a known Venezuelan gang in the U.S., called Tren de Aragua, according to federal court documents.
previously confirmed to Fox News Digital that Jose Ibarra had been arrested by the New York Police Department a year after he entered the U.S. in August 2023 and was 'charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation.' Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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