[Daily Mail UK] - LAPD has identified Shawn Laval Smith, 31, as the man wanted in murder of UCLA grad student Brianna Kupfer
- Career criminal has a lengthy rap sheet with arrests in Charlotte, South Carolina, and California
- At the time of the murder Smith was free on a $1,000 bond in Los Angeles for an unknown misdemeanor
- He also appears to have been on a $50,000 bond in Charleston, South Carolina on a shooting charge
- Police on Tuesday released chilling images of man thought to be Smith buying a vape pen after the slay
- Brianna, 24, was working alone in the luxury furniture store Croft House in LA when she was killed last week
- LAPD said on Tuesday that she texted a friend to say someone in the store was 'giving her a bad vibe'
- Suspected killer was spotted about 30 minutes later at a convenience store in the area
- He was seen calmly purchasing a vape pen while dressed in all black and wearing a distinctive backpack
- Brianna's father slammed politicians for exposing communities to 'people that are falling out the bottom'
- Todd Kupfer said leaders in Los Angeles having been championing people 'that rob others of their rights'
- LA District Attorney George Gascon is under fire for failing to crack down on violence amid crime surge
- Homicides in Los Angeles rose 52% last year from 2019, and shooting incidents were up 59%
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