Progressive prosecutor in county where Laken Riley was found dead at hands of illegal migrant loses reelection --Laken Riley, a UGA student, was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant | 8 Nov 2024 | A progressive prosecutor in the Georgia county where Laken Riley was found murdered by an illegal immigrant lost her reelection bid. District Attorney of Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties, Deborah Gonzalez, lost by a landslide on Tuesday. The incumbent lost to Republican Kalki Yalamanchili by 75% of the vote. Gonzalez was elected in 2020 in an election bid funded by progressive donors pushing for criminal justice reform in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the defund the police movement.