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Court documents shed new details in killing of nursing student at University of Georgia

Augusta University students, in blue, and University of Georgia students gather at the Tate Plaza on the UGA campus in Athens Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, to pay tribute to Laken Riley, a nursing student at Augusta University's Athens campus who was found dead Thursday, Feb. 22, after a roommate reported she didn't return from a morning run in a wooded area of the UGA campus near its intramural fields. UGA students also gathered to pay tribute to a student who committed suicide last week. (Nell Carroll/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

UGA vigil — Augusta University students, in blue, and University of Georgia students gather at the Tate Plaza on the UGA campus in Athens Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, to pay tribute to Laken Riley, a nursing student at Augusta University's Athens campus who was found dead Thursday, Feb. 22, after a roommate reported she didn't return from a morning run in a wooded area of the UGA campus near its intramural fields. UGA students also gathered to pay tribute to a student who committed suicide last week. (Nell Carroll/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

The suspect in the killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus used an object as a weapon in the crime, according to newly filed arrest affidavits.