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Police arrested a non-U.S. citizen male in the murder of 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, and sources inside the Department of Homeland Security say the illegal immigrant was known by law enforcement, according to reports.
During a Friday evening press conference, the local police chief said that 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra has been charged with “malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call and concealing the death of another.”
“He lives here in Athens, but is not a U.S. citizen,” Clark stated, adding that a search warrant has been executed for Ibarra’s apartment, and that evidence was still being collected.
NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley reported on Friday night that that “multiple DHS sources” say that Ibarra is in the United States illegally from Venezuela, and further that he was arrested late …
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