2 Chinese students fatally shot in US

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The slayings shook the campus, which has a large international student population.

12 April,2012 11:32 am

Gunfire shattered the window of the BMW near the University of Southern California campus just after midnight, striking two Chinese graduate students inside.The driver was able to make it from the car, through the rain, to a house where he pounded on the door pleading for help.Ying Wu and Ming Qu, who police say were believed to have been dating, were dead by the time they got to the hospital Wednesday morning as police spread out looking for a killer suspected of bungling a carjacking.The slayings shook the campus, which has a large international student population, and laid bare a parents worst nightmare: having their child harmed in a faraway place.Hundreds gathered Wednesday night on campus for a candlelight vigil in memory of Wu and Qu.