The Venezuelan unlawful alien who has been arrested and charged with the homicide of the 22 year-old College of Georgia nursing scholar Laken Riley has been accused of beating her so badly that he “severely” disfigured her cranium.
Unlawful Alien Charged With Brutally Murdering Riley
The New York Post reported that Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, will not be believed to have identified Riley earlier than he allegedly kidnapped and killed her as she went for a run on her faculty campus final Thursday. Whereas her reason for dying had beforehand solely been listed as blunt power trauma, new paperwork state that Ibarra triggered “nice bodily hurt with an object” with out going into additional element.
Ibarra has additionally been charged with aggravated battery for “severely disfiguring her physique … by disfiguring her cranium,” based on an affidavit obtained by Fox News. This affidavit states that the unlawful immigrant has moreover been charged with stopping Riley “from making or finishing a 911 name” with “intent to hurt” when he kidnapped her as she jogged.
After killing Riley, Ibarra is accused of dragging her physique to a secluded space, with the affidavit supporting a cost for concealing the scholar’s dying.
Riley’s homicide occurred between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. final Thursday, and her roommate referred to as police when she didn’t return from an early morning run. College of Georgia law enforcement officials found her physique in a wooded space alongside a path by the college’s intramural fields simply earlier than 1 p.m. that afternoon.
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ICE Reveals Ibarra’s Historical past
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokeswoman Lindsay Williams informed The Daily Beast that Ibarra is a Venezuelan nationwide who crossed into the U.S. close to El Paso, Texas in 2022. After being “paroled and launched for additional processing,” Ibarra headed to New York Metropolis, the place he was arrested the subsequent yr.
“He was launched by the NYPD earlier than a detainer could possibly be issued,” Williams added.
Ibarra reportedly lives in an residence together with his brother only one mile from the place Riley was murdered. Each Ibarra and his brother are presently being held with out bond on the Athens-Clarke County Jail.
U.S. Rep. Houston Gaines (R-Ga.) took to X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter, on Monday to assert that Ibarra was needed on an arrest warrant in Georgia for blowing off a shoplifting courtroom look in December.
“ICE confirmed what we already know: Jose Ibarra was within the nation illegally,” Gaines wrote. “What the media hasn’t reported was that he was cited in Athens for shoplifting in Oct. — & there was a bench warrant for his arrest for failing to point out in courtroom.”
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Riley’s Cherished Ones Mourn Her
Riley Riley had transferred from the College of Georiga to the close by Augusta College College of Nursing final yr.
“Laken was a tremendous daughter, sister, pal and total particular person basically. Her love for the Lord was exemplified in each facet of her life,” her household stated in a press release. “She shall be missed every single day, however we promise to honor her life shifting ahead in a really huge means.”
“Throughout this most troublesome time, we ask that you simply respect our privateness, and supply us the time and house essential to grieve our daughter’s life that was tragically lower brief,” they added.
Riley shall be honored at a funeral on Friday.
That is sadly what occurs when our border is as open because it has been below President Joe Biden. The media will undoubtedly attempt to sweep Riley’s homicide below the rug as a lot as they probably can, however it might’t be denied that her blood is partly on Biden’s palms.
Please be a part of us in saying a prayer for Riley’s family members throughout this tragic time.
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