Posted on 05/31/2024 6:39:37 PM PDT by george76
During an arraignment hearing on Friday, the illegal immigrant from Venezuela who is suspected of brutally murdering Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley entered a not guilty plea.
NEW: Laken Riley's mother breaks down in court as illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra pleads not guilty during arraignment.
Riley's mother Allyson Phillips was seen sobbing in the background.
The Venezuelan illegal immigrant is accused of inflicting blunt-force trauma to Riley's…
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 31, 2024 Following the murder of Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered while out on a run along dirt trails on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Jose Ibarra, 26, is now facing ten counts.
Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, began crying after he arrived at the Athens-Clarke County Superior Courthouse on Friday. According to a judge, a status hearing for the case will now take place in August, and a trial is anticipated by this fall.
Ibarra is accused of malicious murder, two counts of kidnapping with bodily injury, two counts of aggravated assault with intent to rape, two counts of aggravated battery, hindering someone from calling 911, tampering with evidence, and acting as a “peeping Tom.” These charges were brought against him by a grand jury.
“Ibarra is accused of causing Riley’s death by inflicting blunt-force trauma to her head and ‘asphyxiating her in a manner unknown to jurors,’ an indictment states,” Fox News reported.
The indictment goes on to say that on the day he purportedly killed Riley, the suspect went to an apartment on UGA’s “University Village Housing Building ‘S,'” where he “peeped through” a window and “spied upon” a university employee.
Ibarra lived in an apartment building on the border of the campus park, near the area where Riley would often jog.
UGA Police Chief Jeffrey Clark called the incident a “crime of opportunity.”
Riley’s morning run around the picturesque circle is conveniently located beside Ibarra’s apartment building. The approximate location of Riley’s death is a five-minute walk from Ibarra’s door.
According to previous press reports, ICE and DHS sources said that Ibarra, a Venezuelan national, entered the country illegally in September 2022 through El Paso, Texas, and was later released on parole.
Trump hugs Laken Riley's grieving parents as Biden apologizes to her kiIIer.
I have never seen a clearer contrast.
String him up
No trial necessary
Unimaginable.......needlessly losing one’s daughter
to a crazed invader.......who shouldnt have been allowed in.
biden buddy
What the H#LL is it going to TAKE?
We’ve been watching ILLEGALS rape and murder AT WILL for DECADES now - in America and all across Europe!
We’re so screwed. Worldwide! The ANIMALS are running the place! Plan accordingly for you and yours. You. Are. On. Your. Own.
Mother Government is NOT your friend in any way, shape or form...at ANY level. Again, Plan Accordingly.
I live in LA, where the invasion happened first. I’ve been livid and furious about this since the Clinton administration. The American people have been begging to have their own laws enforced, only to be told “no” again and again. More and more illegals have been allowed in. More and more Americans raped and killed. It just makes my blood boil.
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Always a FAIR trial necessary... Unless you're Trump.
I cannot imagine being a parent & knowing the torture & pain your child suffered.
That illegal.........an inhuman killer.
If this happened to my daughter the last thing that piece of filth would feel would be a ceramic knife blade at his throat. The resulting sentence would be worth it as our completely corrupt “justice” system obviously can no longer be trusted to render actual justice.
Family member should have taken him out sooner, the system will coddle him and protect him
He was arrested 3 months ago. Why has it taken 3 months for him to be arraigned and to enter a plea of not guilty? I don’t understand the law in this country anymore, not that I ever fully did, but my gosh, what is it that I’m missing here?
The rule of law is gone.
It’s happening in Rural America, too.
Mollie Tibbetts.
“Guilty verdict in murder of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, accused of murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts as she was jogging, has been found guilty by an Iowa jury.
Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was found guilty by the jury of first-degree murder for allegedly killing Tibbetts, 20, and hiding her body in a cornfield in the rural city of Brooklyn, Iowa, in July 2018.
Bahena Rivera nodded his head slightly when the verdict was read.
The jury deliberated for seven hours over Thursday and Friday and all were in agreement with the guilty verdict. In Iowa, the sentence for first-degree murder is life in prison without the possibility of parole.”
And now ‘We The Taxpayer’ will be supporting him for the rest of his natural life. I’d yell, ‘Deport! Deport! Deport!’ but he’d be back, anyway. *SPIT*
I mean, if you can’t go for a jog in rural Iowa without being murdered, where CAN you be safe?
How many times have we seen a report of a murder, and way back at the end of the article it mentions that the perp had previously been deported, like, nine times? Even on the rare occasions they get deported, they just waltz back in. They must laugh as they get deported. "Hey, I can visit with my family for a while and then just come back!" This country is a damned joke.
some countries actually vet people before the can enter their countries...health, history, education, amount of money....
I wonder what Americans will do if the dude is found not guilty?
I guess they will complain for a bit and then go back to sleep.
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