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The Los Angeles
Fire Department responded to a reported stabbing around 4:30
p.m. local time and arrived to find a male victim who was about
25, department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said by phone.
Stewart said the man was declared dead at the scene.
The Los Angeles Police Department said a suspect was
subsequently arrested, though no further details were
immediately available.
An LAPD spokesman, officer Drake Madison, said the victim was
possibly a member of the USC faculty.
Representatives for the university's Department of Public Safety
could not be immediately reached on Friday evening.
USC, one of the nation's most prestigious private institutions
of higher education, has made headlines in recent years for
incidents of violent crime.
Security at the campus was tightened following the slayings in
early 2012 of two graduate engineering students from China who
were shot as they sat in a parked car near campus in what police
said was a robbery attempt.
In July 2014, another Chinese graduate student was attacked by a
group of teenagers as he was walking to his home near campus in
a late-night mugging. He made it home but died of his injuries
hours later. Four youths were arrested in connection with the
crime.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Additional reporting
by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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