2 USC students from China fatally shot off campus

[ellisonz]

Source: Associated Press

By GREG RISLING | Associated Press – 2 hrs 22 mins ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gunfire shattered the window of the BMW near the University of Southern California campus just after midnight, striking two Chinese graduate students inside.

The driver was able to make it from the car, through the rain, to a house where he pounded on the door pleading for help.

Ying Wu and Ming Qu, who police say were believed to have been dating, were dead by the time they got to the hospital Wednesday morning as police spread out looking for a killer suspected of bungling a carjacking.

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At USC, the international student presence is enormous — it has the largest number of any university in the U.S. Roughly 19 percent of the school's 38,000 students are from overseas, including 2,500 from China.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/2-usc-students-china-fatally-shot-off-campus-205336516.html

[MADem]

1. Horrible. nt

[onehandle]

2. All guns start out legal. nt

[hack89]

10. And 99.999... percent of them remain that way. nt

[onehandle]

12. Proof? nt

[hack89]

13. 200 million guns. How many murders? nt

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11. As do criminals when they start out life with a clean record.

[siligut]

3. "I do worry because we get a lot of crime alerts but we never actually catch the criminals,"

Jessie Cai, 21, is an undergraduate student in electrical engineering and an international student from China who lives in the West Adams neighborhood. Cai said she is shaken over the shooting and is thinking of moving out of the area as a result.

They never actually catch the criminals? And nothing in the article about what the driver said to the residents of the house? Something is very wrong.

[goclark]

4. Graduated from USC

I am so sorry to hear about this ~ I just passed SC a few days ago.

The area is beautiful with lots of new businesses and buildings.

A fast moving train line is almost completed ~ it will stop at USC and go west to the Beach.

UCLA also has a large number of international students as well.

[valerief]

5. Tax breaks for the rich will fix this. And more guns for Merkans. nt

[tawadi]

6. Might have been a carjacking attempt they said

What a waste. Over a car. If that was the case.

[flamingdem]

7. Rough neighborhood

Sounds like someone high, not a professional, bimmers are not the first choice of car thieves.

[Eugene]

8. AP: $125K reward offered in slaying of 2 USC students

Source: Associated Press

$125K reward offered in slaying of 2 USC students

AP foreign, Friday April 13 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A $125,000 reward was announced Friday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who shot and killed two Chinese graduate students near the University of Southern California.

Police and USC officials made the announcement in the case of Ming Qu, 23, of Jilin, and Ying Wu, 23, of Hunan, who were shot while sitting in a BMW about a mile from campus.

Authorities have not released a description of the shooter, who fled on foot in the rain.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10194292

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9. LA Police: 2 arrests in Chinese student killings

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/05/18/la_police_2_arrests_in_chinese_student_killings/

LOS ANGELES—Two young men have were arrested Friday in the killings of two Chinese graduate students who were shot to death near the University of Southern California campus last month, police said.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Javier Bolden, 19, and Bryan Barnes, 20, were arrested on suspicion of the murders. Barnes was arrested at a home near campus Friday afternoon, and Bolden was arrested a few hours later in Palmdale, Beck said. Both were being held without bail.

Ming Qu, of Jilin, and Ying Wu, of Hunan, were shot April 11 while sitting in a BMW about a mile away from the USC campus. Both students were 23 years old.

The motive was still under investigation, Beck said, but the "evidence points to a street robbery."