Suspect Accused of Killing Grad Student at High-End Furniture Store Seen at 7-11 Minutes Later [Police] – Crime Online

Authorities in southern California have launched surveillance footage of what they are saying captures the suspect accused of fatally stabbing a UCLA grad scholar on the high-end furnishings retailer the place she labored.

As CrimeOnline beforehand reported, 24-year-old Brianna Kupfer was fatally stabbed on Thursday whereas working alone at Croft Home, a furnishings store in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood. Kupfer was learning design in a UCLA grad college program on the time of her demise, and was born and raised within the Los Angeles space.

Police haven’t but recognized or apprehended the suspect, however investigators consider he was captured on surveillance footage within the space, and in addition went right into a neighboring enterprise shortly earlier than Kupfer was killed. Police have described the suspect a black male, between 6 toes and 6 toes 5 inches tall, carrying darkish clothes and carrying a backpack. The Each day Mail obtained video surveillance footage of a person believed to be the suspect at a 7-11 comfort retailer, half-hour and some miles from the scene of the homicide.

Because the New York Publish reviews, Los Angeles Police Division Lt. John Radtke mentioned in a press convention on Tuesday that Kupfer texted a good friend that somebody within the retailer was “giving her a nasty vibe.”

Legislation enforcement officers introduced at Tuesday’s press convention a $250,000 reward for info resulting in the suspect’s arrest, with $200,000 of that reward coming from neighborhood donations.

Anybody with info is urged to contact the LAPD West Bureau Murder unit at (213) 382-9470. These wishing to stay nameless can name Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.