Laken Riley murder suspect seen on video throwing away bloody clothing and gloves shortly after murder: report

Last month, the suspect requested a hearing to potentially suppress certain key pieces of evidence, including cell phones, a cheek swab and social media accounts, which Ibarra claimed police officers unlawfully took when they entered his home without a search warrant.

Two crucial videos

However, in a new memorandum, prosecutors said they had reason to enter Ibarra's residence because two videos matched his description, according to Fox News reporters. One video allegedly shows him peering through a window of an on-campus apartment to spy on a university employee the day Riley was killed. “One video was taken near and around the 'S' apartment building in University Village, which is associated with the peeping tom incident,” the memo said.

Prosecutors said the second video was taken near the Athens apartment complex in Ibarra. “The other video was taken at the apartment complex dumpster, which is adjacent to the UGA campus and less than a half mile from where Laken Riley was murdered,” the filing said.

The video taken at the dumpster “shows a Latino man discarding a bloody jacket with long dark hair on it and bloody gloves less than 30 minutes after Laken Riley was murdered and within a half-mile of her body,” the filing continues.

“The Dumpster video also shows that the Latino man was wearing a black baseball cap with a white Adidas logo, white writing under the logo and a sticker on the brim of the cap,” prosecutors said.

Less than 12 hours later, a sergeant with the Athens-Clarke County Sheriff's Office reportedly encountered a man near the apartment complex. The man was wearing an “identical” hat and when the officer spoke to him, he identified himself as Jose Ibarra's brother, Diego Ibarra. Diego was detained until another officer who spoke Spanish arrived on the scene.

At that point, authorities believed they had reasonable suspicion that evidence of the murder could be found in the apartment. The apartment was shared by Jose and Diego Ibarra and a third brother.

The prosecution claimed that the police could not waste any time in applying for a search warrant at this point. They concluded that swift action was necessary “to secure the apartment pending the application of a search warrant, for fear of destroying further evidence.”

“To require officers in this case to remain outside the defendant's residence while unknown persons continue to destroy evidence of the murder while officers obtain a search warrant would defy all common sense and would be patently unreasonable,” prosecutors said.

Meanwhile, prosecutors also rejected Ibarra's request to exclude the testimony of a witness who performed a DNA test during the victim's autopsy. The DNA evidence came from the deceased student's fingernails, discarded bloody gloves, a black Adidas baseball cap and a blue jacket. Prosecutors said all of these materials “provide a matching statistic that will assist the jury in determining the defendant's guilt or innocence for the crimes charged in the indictment.”

Ibarra, who was reportedly identified through a thumbprint on Riley's cellphone, allegedly beat her with an object so viciously that her skull was disfigured. Ibarra kidnapped and killed Riley as she went jogging on the University of Georgia campus. Riley was found dead near a lake on the Athens campus and died of “blunt force trauma,” according to official police reports.