A man who killed a USC jazz student during an attempted robbery just blocks from the university campus six years ago was sentenced Monday to 35 years to life in state prison.
Ivan Hernandez, 29, pleaded no contest in January to first-degree murder and also admitted that he personally used a gun in the March 2019 killing of 21-year-old Victor McElhaney, whose mother was a member of the Oakland City Council at the time her son was killed.
Prosecutors had asked that Hernandez be sentenced to 35 years to life in prison…