Suspect in Fatal Stabbing of UCLA Grad Student Arrested in Pasadena

Flowers placed outside Croft House furniture store in memory of graduate student Brianna Kupfer, in Los Angeles on Jan. 18, 2022. Alice Sun/The Epoch Times

LOS ANGELES—The man suspected of fatally stabbing a 24-year-old UCLA graduate student in the Hancock Park boutique furniture store where she worked was arrested on Jan. 19 in Pasadena.

Shawn Laval Smith, 31, was arrested after Pasadena police received a tip from a caller of a possible sighting, Lt. William Grisafe of the Pasadena Police Department told City News Service.