Brianna Kupfer’s family and friends gather for what would have been the slain woman’s 25th birthday

Household and associates of Brianna Kupfer hosted a charity run for the slain UCLA grad pupil on Saturday, practically three months after police say a homeless man walked into the Los Angeles furnishings retailer the place she was working alone and fatally stabbed her in a “random” assault. 

Folks gathered on the Brentwood faculty observe to run, do yoga, and dance on what would have been Kupfer’s twenty fifth birthday. Proceeds from the occasion will go to the newly established Brianna Kupfer Basis, which can assist causes that she cared about. 

“We will likely be championing causes expensive to Brianna, comparable to environmental and social justice points, in addition to honoring victims like Brianna by the safety of girls and social betterment,” Mikaela Kupfer, Brianna’s sister, wrote on the muse’s web site. 

Kupfer, a College of Miami graduate who was pursuing a grasp’s diploma in architectural design at UCLA, grew up within the Pacific Palisades with Mikaela, her two brothers, and her dad and mom. 

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“She was a form soul and all the time was attempting to make herself higher and all the things round her higher,” Todd Kupfer, her father, beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital. “She cared about individuals.”

Kupfer was working alone at Croft Home within the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles when 31-year-old Shawn Laval Smith entered the posh furnishings retailer and stabbed her on the afternoon of Jan. 13, in keeping with police. 

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Smith fled by the shop’s backdoor however was arrested the following week after police have been tipped off by somebody who acknowledged Smith from photographs distributed by the LAPD. 

He was charged with homicide and is being held on a $2 million bail. 

The 31-year-old has a prolonged legal historical past and was out on a $50,000 bond for allegedly capturing a flare gun into somebody’s automobile with a toddler inside in South Carolina three years in the past. 

He was charged with discharging a firearm at an occupied car, however the case remains to be pending resulting from a 1,330-case COVID-19 backlog in Charleston County. 

Fox Information’s Michael Ruiz and Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report.