"I no longer run every day. I lost my partner and I lost the joy of what running was"

 Laken Riley’s roommate Connolly Huth has “lost the joy of what running was” before Riley’s death, she told Judge Haggard.

“I no longer run every day,” Huth said. “I cannot imagine running, when I constantly am looking over my shoulder in public, wondering if I am next.”

“I live with excruciating guilt every day, that I was not accompanying Laken on this run, and that it was her, and not me, and I hope and pray that it will never happen again to anyone,” she continued.

Huth described waiting helplessly with their other roommates along the intramural fields near the scene of the crime for two hours the day Riley was killed. She told the judge their fears for Riley were confirmed when they received a university-wide email alerting students, faculty, and staff that “a female was deceased.”

“Laken was a hero and a warrior. She died a hero and a warrior,” Huth told the judge.