LOS ANGELES (AP) — Family, friends and classmates have gathered at the University of Southern California to mourn a Chinese graduate student who was beaten to death near campus in a robbery — and one official wants the school to increase security.
Hundreds attended a campus memorial service was held Friday for Xinran (SHING’-rahn) Ji. The engineering student was beaten with a baseball bat last week and left a trail of blood before dying in his off-campus apartment. Four teens have been charged with the killing.
Through an interpreter, Ji’s parents said their only child had only a year left before graduating.
The dean of the USC School of Engineering announced a scholarship in Ji’s honor.
The Chinese deputy consul general in Los Angeles urged USC and police to take steps to ensure the safety of all students.
