USC Professor Fatally Stabbed on Campus Allegedly by Graduate Student

Professor at University of Southern California, Bosco Tjan died after being stabbed in the chest on December 2.

Los Angeles Police said on Friday the Chinese-American professor was stabbed to death inside the Seeley G. Mudd building in the campus.

Shortly after, a 28-year-old brain and cognitive science student David Jonathan Brown was arrested on a murder charge. Police said that the killing was targeted.

Born in Beijing and raised in Hong Kong, Tjan immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. He joined USC in 2001.

 

Original article by Won Yong-seok
Translated by Heewon Kim