A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled Monday that two men will stand trial for murder in the deaths of two USC graduate students from China who were shot in an apparent robbery.
Judge Stephen A. Marcus said that there was "more than enough" evidence tying Bryan Barnes, 21, and Javier Bolden, 20, to the April 11, 2012, slayings.
Ying Wu and Ming Qu, both 23, were fatally shot as they sat in a BMW parked outside a house near the campus. The students' cellphones had been stolen.
Prosecutors say Barnes sold one phone to a store. The other phone was recovered at the residence where he was arrested, they said.