A trial began Thursday in the 2022 killing of a UCLA student who was fatally stabbed while working inside a furniture store in Hancock Park.
Brianna Kupfer, who was a 24-year-old at the time of her death, was stabbed nearly a dozen times on Jan. 13, 2022 during her shift inside the Croft House furniture store on La Brea Avenue near Beverly Boulevard.The suspected killer, Shawn Laval Smith, is charged with murdering the UCLA graduate student in what appeared to be an unprovoked attack with nothing taken from the store.
Smith was allegedly seen on surveillance video walking away from the store through a rear alley. He was also spotted shopping at other stores before and after the killing, police said. Detectives believe Smith had been homeless at the time of the killing, going from one city to another, including Pasadena, Covina and West Hollywood.
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