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By Tomoki Chien
NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Good morning, I hope you’re having a good week. Here are the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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The suspected Half Moon Bay shooter has a violent history, court records show. 66-year-old Chunli Zhao was previously accused of threatening to split a coworker’s head with a knife and attempting to suffocate his roommate with a pillow.

Staff / San Francisco Chronicle

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The LA County Board of Supervisors banned oil drilling, a potential boon for more than a million people who live near the thousands of oil wells across unincorporated LA County. Culver City and the city of LA made identical decisions in 2021 and 2022, respectively.

Erin Stone / LAist

3.

Jason King will serve as the new dean of USC’s Thornton School of Music. King currently serves as chair of the Clive Davis Institute in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU — his alma mater — and replaces interim dean Josh Kun effective July 1.

Tony Fajardo / Annenberg Media

4.

The Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay shootings were anomalies in many ways: Both were perpetrated by older men, the Monterey Park shooter being the second-oldest such criminal in recent years. Both men were Asian, too, making them each one of roughly 6.4% of mass shooters since 1967 to fall in both those demographic categories.

Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times

5.

USC’s undergraduate student government released its slate of senate candidates for the 2023-24 academic year. Sixteen candidates are running for 12 open seats in the senate, which is charged with representing the interests of the school’s undergraduate students.

Payton May and Cierra Morgan / Annenberg Media

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter.

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