Police spoke to the defendant, Jose Ibarra, who is an undocumented migrant, at his apartment in Athens on Feb. 23, while investigating Laken Riley's death.

Jose Ibarra, who is accused in the killing of Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, appeared for a pretrial hearing Tuesday morning.

The murder trial of Jose Ibarra, the illegal immigrant accused of killing nursing student Laken Riley on the campus of the University of Georgia, continues in its second day. On Nov. 18, the prosecutors focused on the disposed clothing of the suspect that contained Riley's DNA and Ibarra's personal cellphone activity.