Commentary: Laken Riley’s killing does reflect a broader danger. But it isn’t ‘immigrant crime’
Americans have become all too familiar with Jose Antonio Ibarra, the man accused of killing nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus. The disturbing details of this young woman’s death are truly the stuff of nightmares. As moms with kids at or near college age, our hearts resonated with the sorrow of her family when we learned of this tragedy. For one of us, a member of the University of Georgia faculty, there was some solace in mourning alongside the rest of the campus community.
As researchers who study crime, we were also struck” that Riley’s killing exemplified.
