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# 2 sentenced in murder of Chinese grad student in Los Angeles
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/2-sentenced-in-murder-of-chinese-grad-student-in-los-angeles/
- Published: 2018-07-14T12:00:05.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-04T14:04:57.000Z
- Author: Associated Press
- Tags: News, ap, associated press, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:50

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.

ARIEL TU, Associated Press