The authorities appealed to the public on Thursday by the leaders in the murder of 2024 without resolving a 21 -year -old woman who was granted in a alley in southern Los Angeles.
Lanai Dees was driving his Mercedes Benz Blanco in a Century Boulevard alley in the Westmont neighborhood at 12:40 am on November 17, when some in a dark SUV that passed opened fire, said Lieutenant Steven de Jong of the Sheriff’s department of Los Angeles County.
Dees, fatally wounded, crashed into a case of concrete staircase in the alley, said of Jong.
At a press conference on Thursday near where Dees died, De Jong said that the Los Angeles County Supervisors Board was offering a $ 10,000 reward for potential clients.
“We believe that someone in the community has key information about this homicide,” said the lieutenant, flanked by Dees family members.
His mother, Dahlin Dees, said Dees was studying to become a nurse and described her as “the light of our family.”
The “cowards” who killed his daughter “simply touched him and mitigated him,” he said. “It’s hard to walk he adapts to her room every day and knows that she won and says:” Good morning, mom. I love you, mom. “
Dees’ grandfather, Odis Cut, said that if such murder had occurred in the watts of his childhood, “the hood would not let this leave. Someone would appear and say something.”
“The street knows who did it,” he said. “If you know something and you say nothing about it, that means you agree. If you don’t say something, it’s fine with a 21 -year -old girl shots on the street like a dog.”
The Los Angeles County Supervisors Board also offers a $ 15,000 reward for information about the homicide of Raejonette Morgan. On July 2, 2024, the 22 -year -old was shot dead in her Mercedes Benz Blanco in Vermont Avenue, about two miles where she was killed.
Jong said detectives do not believe that the two murders are related. He asked that any person with information contact homicide detectives at (323) 890-5500.
