About a half dozen people, including at least one of Laken Riley’s relatives, left an Athens, Georgia, courtroom to avoid seeing videos and images of the nursing student’s lifeless body.

It was an emotional first day in court for the murder trial of Jose Ibarra, the illegal immigrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. President-elect Trump used her killing as part of the national immigration debate and his campaign.

The case was swept up in the debate over immigration after investigators said the perpetrator was a migrant from Venezuela who entered the U.S. illegally.