LOS ANGELES - A combined $250,000 reward is being offered to help Los Angeles Police track down the person responsible for killing UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer in a random daytime attack at a luxury furniture store.The reward, which is a combination of public and private funding, is being offered for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a suspect or suspects in the stabbing death of the 24-year-old last Thursday."We will find this vicious criminal, we will get him arrested, and we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law," Councilman Paul Koretz said as he announced the reward."Brianna, who was born, educated and was building her career here in Los Angeles was a rising star in this community whose assent was unnecessarily cut short by a heartless criminal last Thursday," Koretz read on behalf of Kupfer's family. "She embodied everything that is great about Los Angeles and the entire city should grieve over this senseless act."Kupfer was working as a consultant for Croft House on North La Brea Avenue and was alone in the store when a man entered the business.
She texted a friend saying that she was getting "bad vibes" from the man, but unfortunately, the friend didn't get the text in time, authorities said in a press conference Tuesday.A short time later, the man attacked her with a knife.
The Los Angeles Police Department said the suspect was a "random walk in to the store."RELATED: After the attack, the suspect was seen on security video casually walking down the back alley of the businesses toward Oakwood Ave.
Possible suspect in Brianna Kupfer murder captured on the store's surveillance camera. About 20 minutes later, a customer came in and found Kupfer dead in a puddle of blood on the.