Two Chinese graduate students were killed in a mystery shooting which could have been a failed carjacking in Los Angeles, police said.
The male and female students from the University of Southern California (USC) were shot overnight while sitting in a double-parked BMW in an area southwest of downtown Los Angeles, said the LA Police Department (LAPD).
The electrical engineering students, in their early 20s, suffered multiple gunshot wounds, said LAPD spokesman Carlton Brown. The woman was found slumped in the passenger seat, while the man was on the steps of a nearby house.