Prosecutors share how a smartwatch left clues in the killing of Laken Riley. Here are the key trial takeaways so far
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About a half dozen people, including at least one of Laken Riley’s relatives, left an Athens, Georgia, courtroom to avoid seeing videos and images of the nursing student’s lifeless body.
About a half dozen people, including at least one of Laken Riley’s relatives, left an Athens, Georgia, courtroom to avoid seeing videos and images of the nursing student’s lifeless body. Emotions ran high among members of the gallery Friday at the start of the murder trial for Jose Ibarra, the undocumented migrant charged in the 22-year-old Augusta University student’s death earlier this year. Riley, who had made the dean’s list at the university’s College of Nursing shortly before her death on February 22, was on her morning jog at the University of Georgia’s campus when prosecutors said she encountered Ibarra. “(Ibarra) put on a black hat, a hoodie-style jacket and some black kitchen-style disposable gloves, and he went hunting for females on the University of Georgia’s campus,” prosecutor Sheila Ross said during opening statements Friday. “When Laken Riley refused to be his rape victim, he bashed her skull in with a rock repeatedly,” Ross said. Prosecutors described Riley’s final moments as she fought for her life, collecting beneath her fingernails crucial DNA evidence they claim identifies Ibarra as her attacker and killer.
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