Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan man in the U.S. illegally, who’s accused of killing University of Georgia student Laken Riley, was portrayed by prosecutors as a predator who went hunting for victims on the UGA campus.

The trial for Jose Ibarra, the man accused of murdering nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus, began on Friday morning. Channel 2′s Courtney Francisco was in the courtroom as prosecutors and Ibarra’s defense attorneys gave opening statements and started calling witnesses.

The man accused of killing a nursing student in Georgia earlier this year "went out hunting for females" on the day Laken Riley was killed, prosecutors told a judge Friday on the first day of Jose Antonio Ibarra's murder trial.