Man Sentenced for
USC Student’s Murder

October 29, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
Shiara Dávila-Morales, Assistant PIO
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – A 25-year-old man convicted of second-degree murder in a 2008 attack on a USC student was sentenced today to 16 years to life in prison.

Judge George Lomeli sentenced Travion Terrett Ford for the Sept. 18, 2008 fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Bryan Frost, said Deputy District Attorney Kennes Ma. A jury in August convicted Ford of the second-degree murder of the USC student and found true the allegation that he used a knife to commit the crime.

Frost was stabbed to death after exchanging words with the defendant when he and two other USC students passed Ford on a street near campus. The verbal exchange escalated into a physical altercation. Los Angeles police said Ford left after Frost was stabbed and was arrested later.

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