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Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra pleads not guilty

The illegal immigrant accused of killing Augusta University student Laken Riley entered a not guilty plea Friday during an arraignment hearing. 

Jose Ibarra, 26, is facing 10 counts following the death of Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who he allegedly attacked on Feb. 22 while she was out for a run along dirt trails on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.  

When he arrived at Athens-Clarke County Superior Courthouse on Friday, Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, began sobbing, according to a Fox News reporter at the scene.  A judge says the case will now have a status hearing in August, with a trial expected by this fall.

A grand jury has indicted Ibarra on counts of malice murder, two counts of kidnapping with bodily injury, two counts of aggravated assault with intent to rape, two counts of aggravated battery, obstructing or hindering a person from making a 911 call, tampering with evidence and being a “peeping Tom.” 

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Ibarra is accused of causing Riley’s death by inflicting blunt-force trauma to her head and “asphyxiating her in a manner unknown to jurors,” an indictment states. 

The suspect is also accused of going to an apartment on UGA’s “University Village Housing Building ‘S,’” where he “peeped through” a window and “spied upon” a university staff member on the same day he allegedly killed Riley, the indictment alleges. 

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Ibarra lived in an apartment building that sits on the edge of the on-campus park where Riley was running, allegedly murdered the aspiring nurse in what UGA Police Chief Jeffrey Clark described as a “crime of opportunity.” 

The scenic loop Riley ran that morning is easily accessible from behind Ibarra’s apartment complex. It is a five-minute walk from Ibarra’s door to the approximate scene where Riley was found dead. 

Ibarra, who is from Venezuela, illegally crossed into the United States through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, ICE and DHS sources previously told Fox News. 

Fox News’ Chelsea Torres and Bill Melugin contributed to this report. 

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Riley Gaines blasts NCAA as 'cowards' over trans athlete policies amid calls for change: 'Disheartening'

Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines is holding strong to her criticism of the NCAA for its leaders’ reluctance to meet with female athletes who say they have been adversely affected by policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports, and for taking a more passive approach to the issue than she believes is essential.

“In 2010, they implemented a blanket policy for all sports. [Saying that after] 12 months of HRT hormone replacement therapy, you could compete in the category that aligns with your gender identity. Now, what the NCAA is doing is they’re in a phase-out approach. Essentially, they want nothing to do with the policy, which shows how cowardly, really they are,” Gaines told “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Will Cain on Sunday.

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“It shows they know this is wrong, and now they’re leaving it up to each specific sport to make rules for that sport.”

Gaines, along with Olympians, coaches and other NCAA athletes, met with organizational officials at the 2024 NCAA Convention in Phoenix to hand-deliver a demand letter urging the officials to meet with female athletes said to be affected by trans athletes participating in women’s sports.

The group also handed over a related petition said to have over 70,000 signatures. 

Gaines told Cain the group of protesters at the convention made the same demands last year.

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“We went back this year to do the exact same thing, because, over the course of this past year, the NCAA hasn’t changed their policies and, as mentioned, women continue to be discriminated against on the basis of our sex,” she said.

“The people I delivered, the people on the governing board who had delivered the petition and the letter to me, even look me in the eyes, which is pretty disheartening as a female athlete…” 

Gaines previously noted her hope to meet with NCAA President Charlie Baker, who assumed the role in March 2023, to have discussions surrounding the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s events.

“I know President Baker testified before the Senate a few weeks ago that changes are being made and that changes have been made, but that’s not what we’re seeing. We’re still seeing the NCAA continue to discriminate against women on the basis of our sex. It’s happening in just about every sport, every level, every division, every state — that’s why we’re here,” she said last week.

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Baker testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in October and was pressed on the issue of transgender athletes being allowed in women’s locker rooms.

“I’m not going to defend what happened in 2022,” he said. “I wasn’t there. I was still governor of the commonwealth. What I will say is, we have very specific rules and standards around the safety and security of all our student athletes, and anyone who hosts one of our national championships has to accept that they know what they are and then abide by them accordingly.”

“I don’t believe that policy would be the policy we would use today,” he added.

“Fox & Friends Weekend” reached out to the NCAA for a statement, but did not receive a response in time for the segment.

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

Riley Gaines says Penn State canceled her Real Women's Day speech, calls out school's hypocrisy

Riley Gaines was set to speak at Penn State University on Tuesday for what she’s dubbed “Real Women’s Day.” Gaines has made a movement on social media to make Oct. 10 “Real Women’s Day” – the date, in Roman numerals, is X/X, which is the chromosome pairing of biological females. However, Gaines posted on X, … Continue reading Riley Gaines says Penn State canceled her Real Women's Day speech, calls out school's hypocrisy