On April 11, 2012, Ming Qu, 23, a University of Southern California graduate student, was shot and killed along with his friend Ying Wu while sitting in Qu’s 2003 BMW parked on Raymond Avenue about a mile from the USC campus. The attack occurred near 1:00 a.m. during heavy rain. Two men approached the car with guns; Qu got out and ran to a nearby house seeking help but was shot multiple times in the head. Wu remained in the vehicle and was shot once in the chest. Both were pronounced dead at California Hospital Medical Center.

Police traced a cell phone taken from the scene to one of the suspects and arrested Bryan Barnes, 20, and Javier Bolden, 19. Both were charged with two counts of murder and with attempted murder in an unrelated December 2011 shooting that left a woman seriously injured and a man paralyzed. Prosecutors said the assailants ambushed Qu and Wu after targeting them as apparently vulnerable, affluent students.

Did anyone in the Raymond Avenue area that night notice suspicious activity or see these two students before the attack?