ATHENS, Ga. — A Georgia judge handed down a sentence Wednesday against Jose Ibarra, the suspect accused of killing Augusta University student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus in February.

The suspect was found guilty of all ten charges in total, including one charge of malice murder, three charges of felony murder, one charge of kidnapping, one charge of aggravated assault with intent to rape, one charge of aggravated assault, one charge of obstructing a 911 call, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of being a “voyeur.” Ibarra pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Riley’s family and friends cried in the courtroom as the judge announced his sentence.

Prosecutors said Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, attacked and killed Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, while she was jogging along trails near Lake Herrick on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. of February 22.

Jose Ibarra will appear for trial in the Superior Court of Athens-Clarke County in Athens, Georgia on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

“Lake Riley himself has given you all the evidence you need to find this man guilty of every single charge in this indictment,” prosecutor Sheila Ross said in her closing statement Wednesday. “She did put up a fight, and it’s a direct result of that fight that gives you all the physical evidence you need to convict him.”

“He killed her because she wouldn’t let him rape her,” Ross added.

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Ibarra, 26, is charged with 10 counts in connection with Riley’s murder and a “voyeur” incident on the morning of February 22. Prosecutors argued that the peeping tom incident is related to the attack on Riley, 22, because it lasted just over an hour. before she was killed and showed Ibarra’s alleged intentions to prey on women on the morning of February 22.

Laken Riley poses for a photo posted on Facebook. Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, was found dead Feb. 22 near a campus lake. An illegal immigrant has been charged with murder. (Laken Riley/Facebook)

Prosecutors say Ibarra saw Riley running past popular trials on the UGA campus just after 9 a.m. on Feb. 22, attacked her, dragged her more than 60 feet into a wooded area and repeatedly hit her in the head with a rock, striking her in the head with a rock. she died.

Witnesses stated that DNA matching Ibarra’s was found in Riley’s fingernails and on a jacket with Riley’s hair recovered from a dumpster near his apartment complex.

“To find this defendant not guilty of the murder of Laken Riley, you would have to not believe the DNA,” Ross said. “You shouldn’t believe the fingerprint evidence.”

During the rebuttal on Wednesday, the prosecutor played video footage of authorities interrogating Diego Ibarra the day after Riley’s murder, which showed Diego identifying his brother on security camera footage and the jacket with Riley’s hair on it in a dumpster behind their apartment complex on the edge of UGA’s. campus. Diego identified Jose based on his clothing, hat and bag.

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A hat reportedly belonging to Jose Ibarra is presented as evidence during Ibarra’s trial in the Superior Court of Athens-Clarke County, Tuesday, November 19, 2024, in Athens, Georgia. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Poo)

“Of course I know my own brother,” Diego allegedly told police, according to Special Agent Lucas Beyer of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), one of the officers who interviewed Diego.

Ibarra’s lawyers have thus far argued that the evidence against the Venezuelan national is circumstantial, and they have pointed the finger at Jose’s brothers, Diego and Argenis Ibarra, who share DNA makeup similarities with Jose. Diego was also seen wearing the same black Adidas-style hat. According to prosecutors, Jose was carrying on Feb. 22 when police questioned Diego on Feb. 23. DNA matching Riley’s was found on that same hat.

Athens-Clarke County Police Officer Zachary Davis points to the photo of the jacket he retrieved from a dumpster as he testifies on the witness stand during a trial of Jose Ibarra, accused of killing a Georgia nursing student earlier this year, in Athens -Clarke County Superior Court, Friday, November 15, 2024, in Athens, Georgia. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

“The facts and evidence in this case should leave you with some reasonable doubt,” Kaitlyn Beck said in her closing argument Wednesday, later adding that “while the evidence in this case is extensive, it is circumstantial.”

Many of the defense’s arguments suggested that Diego could have had something to do with Riley’s murder. Beck said in her clothing statements that “it is more than possible for one brother’s DNA to end up on another brother’s clothing.”

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“I agree with the state, but Lincoln Riley was physically fit. She was fast. She could have outrun (Jose). But there is another suspect in this case who was taller, who was more physically fit, who was wearing sneakers that day contributed to the murder. And that’s Diego Ibarra,” Beck said.

However, prosecutors noted that security camera footage from a dining hall on the UGA campus where Diego worked showed Diego arriving and leaving on February 22.

Allyson Phillips, second from left, mother of Laken Riley, reacts as John Phillips, stepfather of Riley, comforts her during the trial of Jose Ibarra at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Friday, November 15, 2024 in Athens, Georgia. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Argenis and Diego were subpoenaed to testify as witnesses for the defense, but the court ultimately decided not to allow their testimony because they are currently involved in their own criminal cases. Jose’s attorney, John Donnelly, said Diego’s attorney advised that he not be allowed to testify at Jose’s trial while he is currently charged with green card fraud.

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On Monday, the second day of Ibarra’s trial, the court heard a recorded jailhouse telephone conversation between Ibarra and his wife, Layling Franco, that was played aloud and translated by an FBI analyst who spoke fluent Spanish. Judge Haggard ruled Tuesday that the translated call could not be entered into evidence.

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Federal prosecutors say members of Tren de Aragua often wear Chicago Bulls apparel, even if they have no ties to Chicago and are not fans of the team. Investigators found this photo among several images of Diego Ibarra, a suspected member of the gang, wearing Chicago Bulls merchandise. (Middle District of Georgia)

“She said she thinks it’s crazy that they don’t have anyone else’s DNA. They only have his. And she says she doesn’t understand how anyone could watch someone die and not call 911,” says FBI analyst Abeisis Ramirez. testified in court Monday while translating the call for prosecution.

Ibarra and his brothers were illegal in the United States from Venezuela at the time of their respective arrests following Riley’s murder. Diego is charged with green card fraud after showing a fake ID to police on February 23, and Argenis has been placed in immigration detention.

Prosecutor Sheila Ross speaks while holding an evidence bag during the trial of Jose Ibarra in Athens-Clarke County Superior Court, Tuesday, November 19, 2024, in Athens, Georgia. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Ibarra entered the United States illegally El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released on parole to the US, ICE and DHS sources previously told Fox News.

The three brothers lived in an apartment complex less than a half mile from the campus park where Riley was running on the morning of Feb. 22. Their apartment complex is adjacent to a shortcut that leads to running trails along the UGA campus where Riley was found. dead in a wooded area, partially naked and covered in leaves, that afternoon. She died of blunt force trauma and asphyxiation, according to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation medical examiner.

The area where Laken Riley’s body was found near Lake Herrick on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Georgia, February 24, 2024. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital)

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ICE previously confirmed to Fox News Digital that Jose Ibarra had been arrested by the New York Police Department a year after he entered the US in August 2023 and “was charged with acting in a manner likely to injure a child under 17 years of age and a motorcycle license violation.”

Diego Ibarra, who briefly worked at a UGA cafeteria before his arrest in February, had ties to a known Venezuelan gang in the U.S., Tren de Aragua, according to federal court documents.