Column: We mourn Brianna Kupfer. But what about the Black girl dumped along the 110 Freeway?
LA TimesTioni Theus, 16, was found dead this month along a 110 Freeway onramp. L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz said Kupfer’s killing has “shaken and shocked our community to its core.” And L.A. Police Chief Michel Moore told reporters that, “as a father, as a police professional, as just a human being — the unimaginable pain that they must be going through losing a 24-year-old daughter, who had a bright and optimistic future.” Indeed, as a Brentwood High School graduate, Kupfer had been taking courses for a degree in architecture and design at UCLA. “That’s not taking away from that child’s life being lost or what her family has experienced,” Nafeesah Kincy said of Kupfer. Just 13 years old at the time, Tioni told her cousin “that’s my mom,” Nafeesah Kincy recalled. “She said, my mama had those pants.” And, indeed, it was Theresa who was “laid out in the middle of street, blood everywhere.” The hit-and-run accident upended Tioni’s life.
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