By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:01 EST, 19 May 2012 | UPDATED: 01:39 EST, 19 May 2012 Two young men have were arrested Friday in the killings of two Chinese graduate students who were shot to death near the University of Southern California campus last month, police said. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Javier Bolden, 19, and Bryan Barnes, 20, were arrested on suspicion of the murders after material evidence directly linked both suspects to the crime scene. Barnes was arrested at a home near campus Friday afternoon, and Bolden was arrested a few hours later in Palmdale, Beck said. Both were being held without bail.
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Javier Bolden, 19, and Bryan Barnes, 20, arrested on suspicion of murders
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Material evidence left at scene links suspects to students' death
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Students Ming Qu and Ying Wu shot dead in their BMW last April
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Qu and Wu were graduate students from China studying engineering
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