About a half dozen people, including at least one of Laken Riley’s relatives, left an Athens, Georgia, courtroom to avoid seeing videos and images of the nursing student’s lifeless body. Emotions ran high among members of the gallery Friday at the start of the murder trial for Jose Ibarra,

The case was swept up in the debate over immigration after investigators said the perpetrator was a migrant from Venezuela who entered the U.S. illegally.

Opening arguments and testimony began Friday in the trial of Jose Ibarra, for the murder of Laken Riley, before Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard, after Ibarra waived his right