US teens face trial in Chinese student killing

Three Los Angeles teenagers were ordered on Thursday to stand trial on murder charges in the slaying of a Chinese graduate student at the University of Southern California.

Judge M.L. Villar made the ruling in Los Angeles County Superior Court after hearing testimony from the police and watching videos that a prosecutor said showed the fatal beating of Xinran Ji.

Ji, 24, was hit with a bat during an attempted robbery on July 24 as he walked to his off-campus apartment after a late-night study session. He ran from his attackers, but they caught him a block away and continued the beating until he was on his knees.