The Augusta University nursing student found dead on the University of Georgia’s campus Thursday has been identified as 22-year-old Laken Riley.
Augusta University President Brooks Keel said in a Friday statement the school extends its “deepest sympathies to the family of Laken Riley, a junior and Dean’s List student who studied at our campus in Athens.”
UGA said in a Friday statement that the school was “able to complete notification of the family in the death of the young woman whose body was found in the woods behind Lake Herrick yesterday afternoon. The victim has been identified as Laken Riley.”
“Laken was a student at UGA through Spring Semester 2023, prior to transferring to the Augusta University College of Nursing program at Athens, where she was currently enrolled,” the school said in a news release.
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS STUDENT DEAD AT UGA WITH ‘VISIBLE INJURIES’ AFTER GOING FOR RUN ON CAMPUS
UGA police found the female student, who has not been publicly identified, deceased with “visible injuries” in a forested area behind Lake Herrick around 12:30 p.m. Thursday after a friend called authorities to report that the student left for a run Thursday morning and never returned.
“I think it’s going to be a short period of time before they find a suspect,” Georgia criminal defense attorney Philip Holloway told Fox News Digital. “It wouldn’t surprise me if this is a criminal homicide.”
The student’s death remains under investigation as of Friday morning, a UGA spokesperson told Fox News Digital. Classes at UGA and Augusta University College of Nursing campus at…
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