A University of Southern California student will not face charges for the fatal stabbing of a homeless man he said was done in self-defense.

A University of Southern California student will not face charges for the fatal stabbing of a homeless man he said was done in self-defense.

Ivan Gallegos, 19, was arrested on suspicion of murder Monday night in the death of 27-year-old Xavier Cerf.

Police said Gallegos saw Cerf breaking into his car in the parking lot behind his fraternity house on Monday night. According to police, Cerf told him he had a gun, at which point the student stabbed him.

  • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com
    133·
    5 months ago

    So he brought a knife to a gun fight and got lucky. The safer and smarter course of action would have been to call the police imho.

    Edit: and film the theft.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
      132·
      5 months ago

      Actually, from everything I’ve read it doesn’t seem Cerf actually had a gun. The three students who confronted him claimed he said he had a gun and reached for his waistband, but I haven’t seen anything saying a firearm was actually recovered from the scene.