
Jose Ibarra, the suspect accused of murdering Augusta University student Laken Riley in February while she was on a morning run, is currently on trial for the alleged crime. The trial, now in its second day, is taking place in Superior Court Judge Patrick Haggard's courtroom at the Athens-Clarke County courthouse.
Prosecutors claim that 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 on the morning of Feb. 22.