Man Sentenced in Crash That Killed USC Student

“Arian was not just our only child. He was a remarkable young man with a bright future ahead,” the victim’s father told the judge at the sentencing.

A student rides his skateboard past an entrance to the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles on April 11, 2012. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—A man who pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence for a crash that left a University of Southern California (USC) student dead was sentenced Dec. 13 to four years behind bars.

Ricardo Aguilar, now 26, had been in custody since his arrest about an hour after the Dec. 11, 2021, crash that killed Arian Rahbar, but was released shortly after his sentencing, according to jail records.