Laken Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, sobbed within the courtroom as pictures have been proven of her daughter’s determined final stand etched on accused killer’s arm.
A photograph was displayed of Ibarra’s arm lined in scratches taken the day after the Georgia nursing scholar’s dying — prompting Riley’s anguished mom to burst into tears.
Throughout opening statements Friday, prosecutors claimed that Riley, 22, “fought for her life” in opposition to Jose Ibarra for a staggering 18 minutes earlier than she died and that Ibarra’s DNA was discovered beneath her fingernails.
The courtroom was proven Ibarra’s accidents for the second time throughout the testimony of a cop with the College of Georgia going to Ibarra’s dwelling the day after the slaying main as much as his arrest. A number of pictures of Ibarra’s scratched-up arms, wrists and arms have been first proven on Friday as prosecutors argue they’re proof that he’s Riley’s killer.
When Sgt. Joshua Epps was at Ibarra’s dwelling the day after the homicide, he stated Ibarra smoked a cigarette earlier than his arrest.
Ibarra and three roommates additionally chatted and laughed with one another, Epps stated as Phillips shook her head on the testimony.
“They thought it was amusing how many police cars we had,” Epps testified.
Phillips cried all through her time in court docket on Friday in addition to graphic pictures and movies have been revealed of her daughter’s physique after she was brutally overwhelmed and asphyxiated to dying.
