Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra lived within 5-minute walk of UGA crime scene
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University of Georgia murder suspect Jose Ibarra lived within a five-minute walk of the approximate scene where he allegedly murdered 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on Feb. 22.
"It’s never felt right to me." A general view of the area where Laken Riley’s body was found near Lake Herrick on the University of Georgia’s campus in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday, February 24, 2024. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital) Jose Antonio Ibarra has been charged with the murder of Laken Riley after she was killed near Lake Herrick. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital) Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was found dead along the trail. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital) The trail near Lake Herrick was abnormally quiet on a sunny Saturday morning after Riley’s death. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital) The part of the trail where Riley was located near a retention pond has always seemed "eerie," one local resident said. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital) "It's a mother's worst nightmare." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
Her roommate contacted campus police to report her missing, and within half an hour, authorities found Riley dead in a wooded area behind the lake with "visible injuries."
That morning, 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezeula living in an apartment building that sits on the edge of the park where Riley was running, allegedly murdered the aspiring nurse in what UGA Police Chief Jeffrey Clark described as a "crime of opportunity."
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