Arrests for USC killings
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May 20, 2012, Sunday
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POLICE have arrested two young men in connection with the fatal shooting of two graduate students from China last month near the University of Southern California, an attack that stunned a school with more international students than any other university in the United States.
Javier Bolden, 19, and Bryan Barnes, 20, were arrested Friday on suspicion of killing the two students during an apparent robbery attempt, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said.
Qu Ming, of Jilin Province, and Wu Ying, of Hunan Province, were shot April 11 while sitting in a BMW about 1.6 kilometers away from the USC campus. Both were 23 years old.
Their parents filed a lawsuit last week accusing USC of misrepresenting safety at the campus, where nearly one-fifth of the 38,000 students are from overseas, including 2,500 from China.
The motive for their killings was still under investigation, Beck said, but the "evidence points to a street robbery," and investigators believe the killings were part of a larger string of crimes the two men committed in Los Angeles.
"Forensic evidence at the scene linked them to two other attempted homicides," Beck said at a news conference. Evidence directly linked both suspects to the victims, he added.
Beck said neither suspect had a long criminal history or is a documented gang member, though police suspect they may have a gang affiliation.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa congratulated the city's police force, which cooperated with the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to investigate the killings and make the arrests Friday.
Barnes was arrested at a home about 8 kilometers from the campus Friday afternoon, and Bolden was arrested a few hours later in Palmdale, Beck said. Both were being held without bail and are set to be arraigned Tuesday.
USC president CL Max Nikias praised law enforcement and city officials for the arrests.
Javier Bolden, 19, and Bryan Barnes, 20, were arrested Friday on suspicion of killing the two students during an apparent robbery attempt, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said.
Qu Ming, of Jilin Province, and Wu Ying, of Hunan Province, were shot April 11 while sitting in a BMW about 1.6 kilometers away from the USC campus. Both were 23 years old.
Their parents filed a lawsuit last week accusing USC of misrepresenting safety at the campus, where nearly one-fifth of the 38,000 students are from overseas, including 2,500 from China.
The motive for their killings was still under investigation, Beck said, but the "evidence points to a street robbery," and investigators believe the killings were part of a larger string of crimes the two men committed in Los Angeles.
"Forensic evidence at the scene linked them to two other attempted homicides," Beck said at a news conference. Evidence directly linked both suspects to the victims, he added.
Beck said neither suspect had a long criminal history or is a documented gang member, though police suspect they may have a gang affiliation.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa congratulated the city's police force, which cooperated with the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to investigate the killings and make the arrests Friday.
Barnes was arrested at a home about 8 kilometers from the campus Friday afternoon, and Bolden was arrested a few hours later in Palmdale, Beck said. Both were being held without bail and are set to be arraigned Tuesday.
USC president CL Max Nikias praised law enforcement and city officials for the arrests.
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