Jose Ibarra, the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, resumed on Monday in Georgia.It’s a case that became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration during this year’s presidential campaign.

In the nine months since Laken Riley was killed while jogging at the University of Georgia, her death turned into a lightning rod over crime and illegal immigration and cast an ominous shadow over the college town of Athens.

A medical examiner will present evidence Monday in the case against Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan citizen charged in the February killing of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.

A trial is set to get underway for a man accused of killing a Georgia nursing student earlier this year, in a case that fanned the immigration debate in the last election cycle.

The chilling 911 call that captured Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s horrifying final moments was played in court Friday – leaving her grieving mother in a flood of tears during the first day of opening statements.

It was an emotional first day in court for the murder trial of Jose Ibarra, the illegal immigrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. President-elect Trump used her killing as part of the national immigration debate and his campaign.

The suspect accused of killing 22-year-old Laken Riley was "hunting" for women on the University of Georgia's campus the day the nursing student was found brutally murdered on the school grounds, a prosecutor said Friday during opening statements in the bench trial.