Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra will return to court Monday for the second day of his trial. Ibarra is accused of attacking and killing Riley on her run on Feb. 22.

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, who entered the U.S. illegally​, is charged with murder in the February killing, which helped fan the immigration debate during this year's presidential campaign.

Prosecutors claim Jose Ibarra, 26, attacked the Augusta University nursing student, hitting her head and asphyxiating her with the plan to sexually assault her.

Testimony resumed Monday in the trial of the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration during this year's presidential campaign.

Prosecutor say that the man accused of killing Laken Riley "went hunting for females" on the University of Georgia campus before the nursing student's murder.

An ex-roommate of Jose Ibarra, the Tren de Aragua-linked migrant accused of murdering University of Georgia student Laken Riley, implied in court Monday that the pair wound up in Athens, Ga., thanks to a “humanitarian flight” out of New York City.