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Murder charge filed in stabbing death at Los Angeles furniture store

A thirty-one-year-old was accused of entering a store in the Hancock Park neighborhood on Jan. 13 and stabbing a 24-year-old.
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Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Sonia Monico speaks at a news conference about Brianna Kupfer, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, in Los Angeles. Detectives are investigating the murder of Kupfer, a 24-year-old Pacific Palisades resident, who was killed at a business in the 300 block of North La Brea Avenue on Jan. 13. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

LOS ANGELES — A man suspected of stabbing a woman to death at a Los Angeles furniture store in a random killing has been charged with murder. 

Thirty-one-year-old Shawn Laval Smith was charged Friday. Smith is a transient with at least a dozen arrests and several convictions in Southern California, South Carolina and North Carolina. 

He's accused of entering a store in the Hancock Park neighborhood on Jan. 13 and stabbing 24-year-old Brianna Kupfer. 

Smith was arrested in Pasadena on Wednesday, a day after authorities identified him as the suspect and offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.

Read the full AP story HERE.

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