Suspect in Stabbing Death of UCLA Grad Student Charged With Murder

Dozens of friends, co-workers, and Hancock Park residents held a vigil for Brianna Kupfer, a 24-year-old UCLA graduate student, outside of a furniture store in Los Angeles, on Jan. 20, 2022. She was fatally stabbed on Jan. 13, 2022, in the furniture store, where she was working. The Epoch Times

LOS ANGELES—A homeless man suspected of fatally stabbing a 24-year-old UCLA grad student inside a Hancock Park furniture store was charged on Jan. 21 with murder.

Shawn Laval Smith, 31, is accused of the Jan. 13 killing of Brianna Kupfer, who was attacked while working alone inside the Croft House boutique furniture store in the 300 block of North La Brea Avenue.