By Nicole Silverio, Daily Signal, November 18, 2024
Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Jose Ibarra, the alleged murderer of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, traveled from New York City to Georgia after requesting a humanitarian flight, his roommate testified Monday.
Ibarra is currently standing trial after being charged for the murder of Riley, who died in February from blunt force trauma to the head outside of the University of Georgia’s campus. Ibarra’s roommate, Rosbeli Elisber Flores-Bello, testified that she and the suspected murderer arrived at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and requested a humanitarian flight to Athens, Georgia, in September 2023.
“In Manhattan, we requested a humanitarian flight to come here to Atlanta,” Flores-Bello said when asked how they arrived in Georgia.
Flores-Bello resided with Ibarra and his two brothers in Athens at the time of Riley’s murder; she told the jury Monday that her roommates showed no emotion or reaction when she informed them of Riley’s death, according to CNN. The former roommate said she identified Ibarra in surveillance footage while being questioned by police on February 23. …