Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who Customs and Border Patrol sources tell NewsNation has ties to the Tren De Aragua gang, ...

Jose Ibarra has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Laken Riley. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Nursing student Laken Riley, 22, was murdered in February while she was out for a run near the University of Georgia.

Riley’s family and friends tearfully remembered her and asked the judge to sentence Ibarra to the maximum penalty.

Jose Ibarra, 26, was found guilty Wednesday on all counts in the murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.

Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student, was killed on Feb. 22 while she was out on a jog on the University ...