By Tomoki Chien
NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Good morning, I hope you’re able to start your week off strong today. Here are the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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Protestors gathered across LA this weekend calling for police reform after authorities released body camera footage of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols’ arrest in Memphis. Nichols died three days after being beaten by police during a traffic stop.

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A shooter killed three women and left four injured on Saturday morning in Beverly Crest, a posh neighborhood near Beverly Hills. Law enforcement responding to multiple 911 calls in the early hours of the morning found the three women dead in a car outside of a “short-term rental” home.

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Some University of California campuses may consider reducing graduate student admissions in order to fund the pay raises negotiated by last semester’s strikers. Critics say that move could have drastic implications for the UC’s teaching and research missions, though the university is yet to coordinate any system-wide plan to pay for the raises.

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Zhao Chunli, the Half Moon Bay shooter, told investigators that a $100 repair bill for heavy construction equipment damage drove him to allegedly shoot and kill seven people at two mushroom farms. Zhao said he shot a supervisor and a co-worker whom he thought were responsible for a collision between a forklift and bulldozer he was asked to pay for.

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The Los Angeles International Airport’s long-term modernization project is more than halfway complete. Officials said the goal is to have as much as possible of the construction — which includes new terminals, parking structures and rental car facilities — done in time for the 2028 Olympics.

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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