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Two Sentenced in Murder of Chinese Grad Student in Los Angeles

by Associated Press

   LOS ANGELES --

   A woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the beating death of a
   University of Southern California graduate student from China, and a
   co-defendant was given a term of 15 years to life.

   Twenty-year-old Alejandra Guerrero was sentenced Friday on a
   first-degree murder conviction in the 2014 attack on engineering
   student Xinran Ji. Her prison term is without possibility of parole.

   Authorities say Guerrero got out of a car to beat Ji with a wrench,
   while 23-year-old co-defendant Jonathan Del Carmen remained in the car.
   Del Carmen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

   Deputy District Attorney John McKinney says after the attack Ji
   staggered to his off-campus apartment where he died.

   A third co-defendant is already serving life without parole and a
   fourth is awaiting trial.