The family of the 22-year-old nursing student who was found dead at the University of Georgia’s campus last week is speaking out following her tragic death.
Laken Riley was murdered last Thursday in Augusta, Georgia while jogging on a well-used trail near her school’s campus.
According to an affidavit filed on February 23, Jose Antonia Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, was arrested in connection with the crime and is accused of “dragging the victim to a secluded area.”
It adds that Ibarra, 26, “did commit the offense of aggravated battery when he maliciously causes bodily harm to another by seriously disfiguring her body or a member thereof by disfiguring her skull.”
Ibarra is charged with malice murder, murder, kidnapping, false imprisonment, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and concealing the death of another, as well as the misdemeanor of physically hindering a 911 call.
The University of Georgia police department found Riley’s body in a forested area near Lake Herrick after her roommate called to say she went jogging that morning and still hadn’t returned.
A sergeant arrived near the lake with a defibrillator attempting to revive her but was unable to.
Law enforcement has not revealed how Riley was killed, but
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