The illegal Venezuelan immigrant charged with murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley went out “hunting for females” when he preyed upon the 22-year-old jogger — who “fought for her life” as he beat and choked her to death, prosecutors said Friday.
Opening statements got underway in the highly anticipated bench trial against Jose Ibarra, the Tren de Aragua-linked migrant accused of killing Riley on Feb. 22 in what cops have called a crime of opportunity in Athens.
“He went hunting for females on the University of Georgia campus and on his hunt he encountered 22-year-old Laken Riley on her morning jog,” said prosecutor Sheila Ross, with Riley’s family in the gallery. “When Laken Riley refused to be his rape victim, he bashed her skull in with a rock repeatedly.
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