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| JWang07 |
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LOS ANGELES — A gunman opened fire on a BMW near the University of Southern California campus on Wednesday, killing two international students from China in what may have been a bungled carjacking attempt, police said.
The gunfire erupted around 1 a.m., shattering the windows on the new 3-series luxury car. The woman was slumped in the front passenger seat, and the man was found outside the vehicle. They were both dead on arrival at a hospital, authorities said.
Investigators say it may have been a carjacking attempt. Witnesses said the car was in the roadway, not at the curb, at the time of the shooting.
“This is every parent’s nightmare,” police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said.
The gunman fled and no one has been arrested, Smith said. Police have taken the $60,000 BMW away for examination and were attempting to determine if there were any surveillance cameras in the area.
Smith said the names of the 20-year-old woman and the man, who was also in his 20s, were being withheld until families are notified.
Chinese college students have helped fuel record international student enrollment on U.S. campuses in recent years. Students from China represent nearly one-fourth of the nearly 724,000 international students attending colleges and universities in this country.
At USC, nearly 35 percent, or 2,513, of the school’s 7,226 international students are Chinese, according to the university’s 2011 figures. The school, with 38,000 students total, has the largest number of international students of any U.S. university.
The types of students who come from abroad to attend U.S. universities and colleges typically skew wealthier because they have to be able to afford a school’s tuition without financial aid. With China’s economic boom, more families can now afford to send their children overseas.
The USC Department of Public Safety sent an email alert to students, saying that two people were shot in front of a residence.
“The female victim has been identified as a USC graduate student,” the alert read. “Los Angeles Police Department responded immediately to the scene and the victims were taken to California Hospital where they were pronounced dead.”
“The circumstances surrounding the shooting are unclear,” the alert said, adding, “As the university mourns this tragic loss, DPS urges students to be mindful of their surroundings.”
USC is in an urban center not far from gang-infested neighborhoods. But gentrification has begun in the West Adams district.
Beatriz Moreno, who lives across the street with her family from where the shooting occurred, said the neighborhood has been cleaned up. The last shooting she could recall was in 2003.
“We used to see this every day,” Moreno said. “There are mostly families here. This is not normal.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/la-police-say-usc-student-man-shot-to-death-in-bmw-during-likely-carjacking-attempt/2012/04/11/gIQAvqePAT_story.html |
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| koensayr |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:21 am |
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terribly sad news. I heard about it this morning from a friend who goes to USC.
The USC campus area used to be notoriously dangerous. It has been getting better in recent years, but I guess still not very safe at night. |
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| temuchin |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:34 am |
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that part of South Central used to be an affluent area but after the 50s it's a black area: ie crime infested.
they dont really know what happened. 2 chinese shot in LA. back in the 90s Southeast Asian and Korean storeowners were shot every month in South Central and dudes got shot up every day |
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| shokenchi |
| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:32 pm |
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sam walton's granddaughter went there right?  |
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| Dr. No |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:32 am |
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temuchin wrote: that part of South Central used to be an affluent area  but after the 50s it's a black area: ie crime infested.
it was not affluent in the 50s, nor before WW2. South Central LA has always been a working class neighborhood. before the war, it was mostly white working class area.
obviously, you've never been to that area---lots of apartments, single family homes, no mansions. mansions are located in the Miracle Miles area, the west side, BeverlyHills, Westwood and in the Valley
you know less about LA than PRY knows about InO
temuchin wrote: back in the 90s Southeast Asian and Korean storeowners were shot every month in South Central
lots of store owners in that area, whites / blacks / middle easterners and Asians were victims of crimes. |
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| temuchin |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:33 am |
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hahahahahaha all you did was post how you've never been to USC or have any clue where it is.
the shootings were on Raymond Avenue just south of Adams Boulevard.
Adams Boulevard giving the name to the area of West Adams in South Central Los Angeles. This is what even wikipedia had to say about West Adams
Quote: West Adams is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, with most of its buildings erected between 1880 and 1925, including the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. West Adams was developed by railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington and wealthy industrialist Hulett C. Merritt of Pasadena. It was once the wealthiest district in the city, with its Victorian mansions and sturdy Craftsman bungalows home to Downtown businessmen and professors and academicians at USC. In the 1990s, three areas of West Adams were designated as Historic Preservation Overlay Zones by the city of Los Angeles, in recognition of their outstanding architectural heritage.
I mean the fukin place is known as Historic West Adams but this is what Dr Moranus had to say about West Adams:
Dr. Moranus wrote:
it was not affluent in the 50s, nor before WW2. South Central LA has always been a working class neighborhood. before the war, it was mostly white working class area.
obviously, you've never been to that area---lots of apartments, single family homes, no mansions. mansions are located in the Miracle Miles area, the west side, BeverlyHills, Westwood and in the Valley
LOL. and EMPHASIS HIS.
ok. LA historians and everyone are wrong. even a public source with the MOST BASIC KNOWLEDGE of LA is WRONG. I guess West Adams was historic for its "working class population" and not its historic buildings and architecture looooooooooooooooool.
NO MANSIONS GUYS. THIS DOES NOT EXIST at 3500 West Adams Blvd down from where the kids were killed:
Dr Moranus says
1) it was not affluent
2) no mansions
leave it to Dr Moranus to own himself even harder by emphasizing (of his OWN VOLITION) precisely the ****** he is WRONG about: not affluent, no mansions. EMPHASIS HIS.
basically, I've been to USC. Dr Moranus has never even been to USC. He's never been to MOST of the places in California, let alone in LA. all he knows is his local innout.
where they were shot has been gentrified since the 90s with college people and other yuppies increasing moving there. you have no clue about working class.
quit owning yourself like a douchebag.
you don't even know where South Central is. you hear "South Central" or "South Los Angeles" and all you can think of is Boyz in the Hood or Friday lol you've never even been there and you dont even know where it is or you dont know what areas it constitutes. you have no clue what happened in the 90s with the storeowners because you've never even been outside of your apartment complex and the innout attached to it.
your second statement
Dr. Moranus wrote: lots of store owners in that area, whites / blacks / middle easterners and Asians were victims of crimes
shows you dont even have a vague knowledge of the MOST SIGNIFICANT event in the 90s in LA, the LA Riots. you're a clueless rube.
seriously you lack all knowledge so once again you go to your stupid assumptions... well if asians were shot... must mean "white black and middle easterners" were also targeted. you're ignorant as ******. the tensions were between asian storeowners and black gangbangers/addicts. not blacks and middle easterners LMFAO. |
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| Dr. No |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:33 am |
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Dumb shi t is just a glutton for punishment.
why are you so stupid, Turd Chin ?
the only thing that the angry Asian Woman, Turd Chin, knows about LA is that she has never been there.
but that has not stopped her from cuting and pasting stuff from Wikipedia and pretend to have first hand knowledge of the area surrounding USC. my father rented his first apt not far the the AAA building on Adams; i was born in the USC LA County hospital. i spent the early part of my childhood around the USC neigborhood, attended Arlington Heights Elementary School.
even when USC was built, in the late 1800s, the neighborhood was not considered affluent. neighborhoods like Miracle Miles, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Bel Air were affuent in the 1950s, at the time the USC neighborhood was a working class area. |
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| Dr. No |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:49 am |
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this was the baseless claim made by Turd Chintemuchin wrote: ...the area was affluent in the 1950s
and this is the best the angry Asian woman can come up with
temuchin wrote: ...the riot was the MOST SIGNIFICANT event in the 90s in LA, the LA Riots.  |
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| koensayr |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:05 am |
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A little more info about the students from a friend who knows people at USC. Apparently, the news paper article got it really wrong.... I guess not a big surprise there.
The student bought the car as a 2nd hand car, it is a 2003 model with 80k miles on it, far from a brand new car. The two were working on a school project in the library, then the guy drove the girl home and they were shot on the street where she lived. |
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| temuchin |
| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:42 am |
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Moranus what are you rambling about. You are clueless about LA.
First of all you dont even know the area. It's not "USC neighborhood" it's West Adams.
Second you have no clue about the development of LA. The REASON I mentioned the 50s as anyone who is AMERICAN and knows about the 20th century and not a FOB like you and your dad knows that POST WAR the entire map of the US was redrawn after Truman saw the German Autobahn and had one built in the US.
After the freeway was built it completed white flight from West Adams. THAT is why it's significant.
Third you are the one who made up your own claim "the area was affluent in the 1950s" merely because YOU CANNOT READ OR COMPREHEND ENGLISH. The point I made was that AFTER the 50s (after meaning AFTER as in NOT the 50s) the area was BLACK.
How can an asshole who claims to be from LA know so LITTLE about LA. this isn't the first, second or even eighth time you've proven totally ignorant about LA.
Dr Moranus says:
Dr. Moranus wrote:
it was not affluent
the rest of the world says:
Quote: It was once the wealthiest district in the city
Dr Moranus says:
Dr. Moranus wrote:
no mansions
the rest of the world says:
the real questions are:
1) exactly what parts of LA have you actually been to?
2) do you know anything about LA at all??
3) do you know the meaning of the word AFFLUENT?
4) do you KNOW what a mansion IS?
5) do you know what the world A-F-T-E-R means
it's plain assumed that you have no clue about
a) white flight
b) the historical districts of LA
c) the real estate development of LA
d) LA riots
e) what a black person looks like
f) what the West Adams neighborhood looks like now
g) anything |
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