Laken Riley’s Family Will Get Back The IPhone Used To Call Her Mom In The Final Moments Before She Was Killed By Illegal Migrant

Laken Riley’s family will get back the iPhone used to call her mom in the final moments before she was killed by illegal migrant:

Murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s iPhone — which she used in her final moments to call her mom, and which her killer left a thumbprint on after he attacked her — is set to be returned to her family, new court papers show.

The Apple device was critical in clinching the murder conviction against illegal migrant and Tren de Aragua gangster Jose Ibarra in November, because it helped provide a precise timeline of her movements.

It also provided a heartbreaking narrative of the minutes before she was brutally murdered on a running trail in Athens, Georgia on Feb. 22, 2024.

“Good morning, about to go for a run. Are you free to talk?” Riley texted her mom, Allyson Phillips, at 8:55 a.m. roughly 30 minutes before her death.

Riley then rang her mom, who didn’t pick up, just 7 minutes before Ibarra pounced, smashing in her head and asphyxiating her in an attempted sex-assault gone awry, phone records and trial evidence showed.

Prosecutors in Georgia earlier this week asked Judge H. Patrick Haggard to release the 22-year-old Augusta University student’s phone to her family.

“Laken Riley’s family is requesting the return of her cellular telephone,” special prosecutor Sheila Ross wrote in a letter Monday.

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Ross said that since the phone was already photographed and forensically processed there was no longer a need for the prosecutor’s office to retain it. And Ibarra’s appeal lawyer “does not oppose” the cell phone being given back to Riley’s family, Ross added.

Haggard must sign off before the phone can be handed over.

Evidence from Riley’s phone was prominently featured at trial — including her text and call logs — since she had the device with her on her final jog the morning when Ibarra, 26.

The iPhone locked shortly after she called her mom — and wasn’t unlocked again until investigators used the device as part of the probe into her death.

Phillips didn’t get back to her daughter until 9:37 a.m. — or 9 minutes after Riley’s heart stopped beating. --->READ MORE HERE

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