Funeral plans have been announced for Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student from Woodstock who was killed on the University of Georgia campus Thursday.
Riley was a 2020 graduate of River Ridge High School, where she was on the school’s track team. She attended UGA before transferring to the Augusta University College of Nursing campus in Athens.
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