Authorities appealed to the general public Thursday for leads within the unsolved 2024 killing of a 21-year-old girl who was gunned down in a South Los Angeles alley.
Lanai Dees was driving her white Mercedes Benz in an alley off Century Boulevard within the Westmont neighborhood at 12:40 a.m. on Nov. 17 when somebody in a passing dark-colored SUV opened hearth, Lt. Steven De Jong of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division mentioned.
Dees, fatally wounded, crashed right into a concrete staircase within the alley, De Jong mentioned.
At a information convention Thursday close to the place Dees died, De Jong mentioned the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was providing a $10,000 reward for leads.
“We consider somebody locally holds key details about this murder,” the lieutenant mentioned, flanked by members of Dees’ household.
Her mom, Dahlin Dees, mentioned Dees was learning to change into a nurse and described her as “the sunshine of our household.”
The “cowards” who killed her daughter “simply took it and dimmed it,” she mentioned. “It’s onerous to stroll previous her room day by day and know she received’t come out and say, ‘Good morning, Mother. I really like you, Mother.’”
Dees’ grandfather, Odis Sneed, mentioned if such a killing had occurred within the Watts of his childhood, “the hood wouldn’t let this get away. Any individual would come ahead and say one thing.”
“The road is aware of who did it,” he mentioned. “If you realize one thing and don’t say something about it, which means you’re in settlement. For those who don’t say one thing, which means you’re OK with a 21-year-old little one being gunned down on the street like a canine.”
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors can be providing a $15,000 reward for details about the murder of Raejonette Morgan. On July 2, 2024, the 22-year-old was shot to loss of life in her white Mercedes Benz on Vermont Avenue, about two miles from the place Dees was killed.
De Jong mentioned detectives don’t consider the 2 killings are associated. He requested that anybody with info contact murder detectives at (323) 890-5500.
