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Laken Riley called her mother on February 22nd at 9:03 AM. By the time Laken's mother had called her back 20 minutes later, Laken Riley had already come into contact with Jose Ibarra. Laken was running a wooden trail at the University of Georgia. Jose Ibarra attacked Laken on the wooden trail and bashed her head in with a rock, data from Riley’s smartwatch shows her heart stopped beating at 9:28 a.m. After Riley failed to answer the phone, her mother, Allyson Phillips, texted her several times, casually at first but then with increasing concern, according to data pulled from Riley’s phone. 

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Ibarra, 26, is charged with murder and other crimes in Riley’s death in February, and his trial began Friday. He waived his right to a jury trial, meaning the case will be decided alone by Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard. The case could go to the judge by the end of Tuesday. The killing added fuel to the national debate over immigration when federal authorities said Ibarra illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 and was allowed to stay in the country while he pursued his immigration case. 

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Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Lucas Breyer testified about reviewing the body camera video from the officer who found Riley’s body in the woods. He testified that her clothes were “heavily manipulated,” describing the waistband of her running tights as having been pulled down some and her jacket, shirt and sports bra having been pulled way up. barra had gone out “hunting for females” that morning in February and that he killed Riley after a struggle when she “refused to be his rape victim.” 

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