Prosecutors say suspect in UCLA scholar Brianna Kupfer’s homicide recorded brutal stabbing

Brianna Kupfer’s alleged killer is on trial for her homicide two years after the brutal stabbing of the 24-year-old UCLA scholar.

Kupfer, an architectural graduate scholar, was once running on my own at Croft Area, a boutique furnishings retailer in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park, Jan. 13, 2022, when Shawn Laval Smith allegedly entered the shop and stabbed her dozens of occasions. 

“The proof will exhibit that the defendant attacked Brianna with such power, such decision, with such widespread and a lot of swings of this knife that he bent the metal blade,” Habib Balian, a deputy district lawyer, stated within the prosecution’s opening remark. “Brianna Kupfer was once stabbed to loss of life 26 occasions.” 

Smith, who has an extended prison historical past, was once arrested six days after Kupfer’s homicide. 

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Shawn Laval Smith is on trial for allegedly stabbing Brianna Kupfer to loss of life in 2022.  (KTTV)

“This can be a brutal homicide,” Nathan Hochman, who’s operating towards LA County District Legal professional George Gascon, informed Fox Information Monday. 

“Shawn Laval Smith, in step with the prosecution’s opening remark, was once a brief who had over a decade-long prison historical past,” Hochman added. “Investigators discovered Smith’s knife along with his DNA on it, there may be video of him on the retailer and he if truth be told made an audio recording the place you need to listen at the audio tape that she is pleading with him, that she will be able to if truth be told assist him.”

“Along with her closing respiring phrases, she’s telling him: ‘I will permit you to, I will permit you to, I will permit you to.’ And he’s telling her, ‘It’s over, b—-, it is over,'” Balian stated within the court.

He added “the defendant recorded himself speaking about his maximum vile and disgusting and gruesome ideas about ladies.”

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Brianna Kupfer, 24, was once stabbed to loss of life in 2022.  (Linkedin)

Hochman added that Smith “will have to have by no means were at the streets that day. He had a rap sheet going again a decade, and if the prosecutors on the time were doing their activity, and he were arrested on his exceptional warrants, he do not have been within the furnishings retailer that day to kill Brianna Kupfer.”

Smith went to 6 different retail outlets prior to discovering Kupfer, looking for a lady running on my own, prosecutors stated, in step with FOX 11. 

“He sought after to kill ladies,” Balian stated in courtroom. 

Kupfer’s oldsters known as her an “angel.”  (Emma McIntyre/Getty Photographs)

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If convicted, Smith may just face lifestyles with out the potential for parole. 

“It is fascinating since you sit down right here and also you assume, ‘What am I going to mention about her?’ and you need to be original, and you need to be actual. And all the ones issues by no means sound actual while you say that she was once an angel and she or he was once best, proper?” Kupfer’s father, Todd Kupfer, informed FOX 11 closing week forward of the trial. 

“It kind of does not sound true, however, actually, it just about was once.”