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.

Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan man who entered the U.S. illegally two years ago, is charged with murder and other crimes in Riley’s February killing.

Georgia court Laken Riley/Facebook Laken Hope Riley The man accused in the February killing of Georgia college student Laken Riley was “hunting” for women on the day of the attack, prosecutors alleged on the first day of his trial.