Riley’s case made national headlines in March during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, when firebrand U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene interrupted his speech to demand that he ‘say her name’
A Venezuelan migrant was convicted on Wednesday of murdering Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student whose killing became a rallying cry for U.S. President-electJose Ibarra, 26, who entered the U.S. illegally, was found guilty on murder and other charges by Judge Patrick Haggard in Athens-Clarke County Superior Court. As he read the verdict aloud, Riley’s family members and friends could be heard sobbing, while Ibarra sat stony-faced.
In her closing statement earlier on Wednesday, prosecutor Sheila Ross called the evidence against Ibarra “overwhelming,” including DNA under her fingernails that authorities linked to the defendant, scratches on Ibarra’s body and video footage of a man matching Ibarra’s description throwing a bloodied jacket into a dumpster soon after the murder.
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