Fourth Attacker Sentenced in the Beating Death of USC Grad Student from China

A 22-year-old man Alberto Ochoa was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for a brutal baseball bat attack that killed a USC electrical engineering graduate student.

According to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Ochoa is the fourth and final person sentenced in the attack, authorities said, bringing to a close a chapter that sent shock waves through the USC community.

Ji was able to stagger away from the attack scene and reached his nearby apartment, where he was found dead by one of his roommates.

Jurors also found that Ochoa was an “actual killer,” along with finding true the special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission of an attempted robbery and an allegation that he used a baseball bat during the attack. The panel also found him guilty of one count each of assault with a deadly weapon, robbery and attempted robbery involving an attack on a man and woman at Dockweiler Beach about two hours after Ji’s beating.

Alejandra Guerrero, Jonathan Del Carmen and Andrew Garcia were also convicted in Ji’s killing. Prosecutors said the group attacked Ji, and Garcia chased him down and beat him with a bat.