Posted on 01/19/2022 1:21:50 PM PST by granite
PASADENA, Calif. - Shawn Laval Smith, the suspected killer of Brianna Kupfer, was taken into custody Wednesday in Pasadena in connection with the 24-year-old UCLA grad student's stabbing death, authorities confirmed to FOX 11.
He was arrested by Pasadena police officers around 11:50 a.m. at a bus stop near the intersection of E. Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue, approximately 17 miles from the furniture store where Kupfer was murdered, officials said.
Los Angeles police launched a hunt for Smith, 31, after Kupfer was found stabbed to death in a random daytime attack at a luxury furniture store last week. Smith remained on the loose early Wednesday and police have said that he should be considered armed and dangerous.
A combined $250,000 reward was being offered to help Los Angeles Police track down Smith.
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Like so many of the homeless people roaming the streets in California this perp is a drifter from out of state. He probably left his home state of North Carolina because his type of sh*t is not tolerated where he came from. On the other hand, California welcomes him.
It’s too bad the police didn’t have a opportunity to kill him instead of arresting him.
Bail will be set at $1,000.
Kamala Harris will post a link to the Shawn Laval Smith freedom fund.
Joy Reid will rant that Brianna Kupfer was white trash who disrespected him.
George Gascon will complain that it’s a tough case and plea bargain the charges down to simple assault.
He just wanted to talk to her and became upset when she asked him to leave the store. Then he attacked because he thought she was reaching for a gun under the counter. He’s a poor homeless guy who’s trying to change his life, and people don’t like him because he’s black and looks creepy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they spring a nonsensical defense like this.
We’re in so much in trouble here in L.A. It’s a dystopian nightmare and the idiots are in charge of the criminal justice system.
Fox showed the dates of 12 different incidents where he was arrested. It reminds me of the Terminator that has more than the nine lives of a cat, that keeps coming after Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will one day save mankind.
I heard Gascon is going to thoroughly investigate for possibility of hate crimes, if it’s found he will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law,
…….oh wait, that was something else.
It’s bad to see a Frenchman lose his racist roots.
Yes.
Example: If that synagogue terrorist deciding upon whether to kill the rabbi and congregants this week had not died there would have been plots to hold others or entire buildings of people hostage with bombs and guns to try to free this guy.
The religious and other wimps endanger all our lives by saying "it doesn't show statistically that it discourages felons to know there's a death penalty."
But it definitely discourages the dead convicted criminals.
Those White Supremicist terrorists have got their camouflage down great! (Snark)
No way will he receive what she did.
As I understand it, she and her family are strongly liberal and almost certainly voted for Biden, Newsome, and the rest of the fascist gang.
She and mom and dad voted for the people and system that put this maniac out on the streets with minimal bail.
This maniac went out to kill someone and I'm glad it was this stupid liberal woman who was killed instead of a freeper or freeper's daughter.
how dare you call the victim of this savage attack "stupid"
I don't want any freepers or their families murdered and I certainly don't want anybody else killed for no reason either....
geez louise....lets show some respect for the young woman and her family.
I do because she and her family are the enemy - they voted to put all of us at risk. Go ahead and burnish your halo.
I’m with you. Sucks that it happened to someone, but better that it happens to the ones who caused all of this and want more of it.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Laval Smith should be executed by multiple stabbing wounds, and let him bleed to death after feeling the pain of stabs, identical to those he inflicted on the young lady.
Eye for an eye!
I hope using the “Amish” was not intentional.
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