Murder charge filed in stabbing death at LA furniture store

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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.