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Associated Press

A 21-year-old man was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the beating death of a University of Southern California graduate student from China.
Albert Ochoa is the fourth person convicted in the 2014 attack on 24-year-old engineering student Ji Xinran.
Ochoa and three others attacked Ji while trying to rob him as he was walking home from a study group near the USC campus on June 24, 2014, prosecutors said.
Ji was beaten with a wrench and a baseball bat. After the attack, Ji staggered to his off-campus flat and was later found dead.

Alejandra Guerrero and Andrew Garcia are serving life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder in the case.
A third man, Jonathan Del Carmen, is serving 15 years to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
During Garcia’s sentencing last year, Ji’s father, Ji Songbo, sobbed as he told the court that his son was killed viciously.
“People like our age are now prepping their daughter’s and their son’s wedding, and their life is full of joy,” he said in Mandarin.
“But every day instead for us we are paying tribute to our son, crying.”
Ochoa faces life in prison at his sentencing on March 8.

After their attack on Ji, prosecutors said Ochoa and the others drove to Dockweiler State Beach and robbed a man and a woman.
The jury also found Ochoa guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and robbery in that attack.


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Fourth person found guilty in LA murder of Chinese student Ji Xinran, who was brutally beaten with a wrench and baseball bat

After the attack, Ji Xinran staggered to his off-campus flat and was later found dead. Photo:

The parents of murdered USC graduate student Xinran Ji, 24, from China, Jinhui Du (2nd R) and Songbo Ji (L), cry after viewing his body for the first time at a funeral home in Alhambra, California July 31, 2014. Four teenagers were charged with capital murder on Tuesday in the beating death of Xinran Ji not far from the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, prosecutors said. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW)

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2015 file photo, Alberto Ochoa, left, appears in Los Angeles Superior Court with his attorney Christopher C. Chaney, as one of four defendants being charged in connection to the 2014 beating death of USC graduate student Xinran Ji, from China, during an attempted robbery. Ochoa, now 21, was found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, making him the fourth person convicted in the 2014 attack. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)

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Albert Ochoa is the fourth person convicted in the 2014 attack on 24-year-old engineering student Ji Xinran


Albert Ochoa is the fourth person convicted in the 2014 attack on 24-year-old engineering student Ji Xinran.


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