The trial for Jose Ibarra, the man accused of murdering nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus, began on Friday morning. Channel 2′s Courtney Francisco was in the courtroom as prosecutors and Ibarra’s defense attorneys gave opening statements and started calling witnesses.

Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan man in the U.S. illegally, who’s accused of killing University of Georgia student Laken Riley, was portrayed by prosecutors as a predator who went hunting for victims on the UGA campus.