Jose Antonio Ibarra, the migrant who allegedly killed nursing student Laken Riley, received a taxpayer-funded hotel stay in New York City and a flight to Atlanta, Georgia, in September 2023, according to a witness in a criminal court trial on Monday.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Testimony resumed Monday in the trial of the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley with police officers describing searching the man’s apartment and questioning him and others who lived there.