Murder of Brianna Kupfer

The murder of Brianna Kupfer occurred on January 13, 2022, in which a 24-year-old University of California, Los Angeles student was murdered by Shawn Laval Smith in Los Angeles, California. Smith, a 31-year-old man with an extensive criminal record, stabbed Kupfer to death in the Croft House store where she was working in the Hancock Park neighborhood. A few minutes later, a customer found Kupfer's stabbed body, covered in blood. Kupfer was pronounced dead that day.