district attorney joined us saying the nation needs to wake up. listen. where was the assessment of smith s background? we have hundreds of people who are being shot and murdered in los angeles. this is going on all throughout los angeles and it is particularly going on in counties and jurisdictions that have elected soros woke district attorneys. ashley: new york city district attorney bragg is stand by his stance. what i have done, we said it out loud in the spirit of transparency. ashley: in new york city, the nypd released footage of the moment an 11-month-old baby girl was shot in the face in a car
warning so we re waiting on the white house. this is breaking news. we have now learned that brianna kupfer s suspected murderer has been arrested. let s check back with jonathan hunt who has been on this breaking news the last hour. he s live in los angeles. hi, jonathan. hi, martha. that arrest apparently made a short time ago in pasadena. that is about 15 miles north and east of where 24-year-old brianna kupfer was killed last thursday. stabbed as we now know by a man identified by police as shawn laval smith. a 31-year-old man with a long criminal history. we are now being told, sources telling our producer that shawn smith was arrested at a bus stop in pasadena. police have told us all along
remembered at a vigil today at the store where she worked and where she was murdered. shawn smith was arrested after a member of the public spotted him and called 911. he was out on bail following a misdemeanor shoplifting a wrist here in california. his long criminal record began on the east coast. the most serious charge appears to have been for firing a flare gun into a vehicle where a young boy and man were sitting. that was in 2019 in charleston, south carolina. it was a charge that could have meant ten years in prison. we understand that smith was freed on $50,000 bail and less than 10% of that was paid before it seems smith took advantage of the march 2020 covid-related court shut down to skip town, leave the state and head west. in october, 2020, he was arrested for stealing from a home depot in covina california
all across the country. in chicago last month malik was arrested for the shooting of a 17-year-old girl. he has a violent history, including another shooting at a gas station in martha left an 11-year-old dead. was he properly punished for his crimes? of course not. it s chicago. instead, he was released back on the streets following the march shooting with only a $7,500 bail. chump change for a shooting that put a body in a coffin. but this set the stage for him to shoot another teenage girl like he did in december. and what about the case of shawn laval smith earlier this month smith was arrested for the brutal murder of a 24-year-old ucla student briana kupfer. smith has a lengthy rap sheet with records showing 11 different arrests across the country since 2010. instead of putting smith in prison for one of his many charges including assaulting an officer in california or shooting up a car in south
Los Angeles DA George Gascon released a new PSA offering resident tips to avoid having their vehicles robbed as car theft surge in the city following his soft-on-crime policies.