Mourners gather outside the Croft House on Wednesday during a memorial for Brianna Kupfer, who was stabbed to death inside the furniture store. Jurors took little more than an hour on Tuesday to convict a man of murder in the stabbing death of UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer as she worked in a Hancock Park boutique furniture store. Shawn Laval …
The Los Angeles's district attorney, George Gascon, has been criticized for his liberal approach to crime. Jonathan Hatami, a veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor who has been an outspoken critic of Gascon and even sued him for retaliation last year, hit out at his boss in the wake of Kupfer's killing, He argued that his progressive policies are failing the …
Shawn Laval Smith, 31, is wanted for the murder of Brianna Kupfer in Los Angeles. She had texted a friend to say someone in the shop was 'giving her a bad vibe' Smith has a prolific criminal record, with dozens of prior charges in North Carolina and South Carolina Smith is seen in Charleston, South Carolina mugshots in June 2013 …
