Authorities on Thursday called on the public for the unresolved killing of a 21-year-old woman who was shot dead in an alley in South Los Angeles.
Lt. County Sheriff Steven de Jong said Lanai Dees was driving a white Mercedes Benz in a lane in the Westmont neighborhood at 12:40 a.m. on November 17.
De Jong said the fatal injury hit the concrete stairs in the alley.
De Jong said in a press conference on Dees’ death Thursday that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has offered a $10,000 reward to potential clients.
“We believe someone in the community has key information about this homicide,” the lieutenant said.
Her mother, Dahlin Dees, said Dees was studying becoming a nurse and described her as “the light of our family.”
She said the “co-husband” who killed her daughter “just took it away and darkened it.” “It’s hard to walk through her room every day, knowing she won’t come out and say, ‘Good morning, mom. I love you, mom.'”
Dees’ grandfather, Odis Sneed, said that if there was such a killing in his childhood Watts: “The hood won’t let it escape. Someone will come forward.
“The street knows who did it,” he said. “If you know what and you don’t know anything about it, it means you agree. If you don’t say anything, it means a 21-year-old was shot dead on the street like a dog.”
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors also offered a $15,000 reward for information on the Raejonette Morgan homicide. On July 2, 2024, the 22-year-old was shot dead in white Mercedes Benz on Vermont Avenue, about two miles from killing Dees.
De Zheng said the detectives did not think the two killings were related. He asked anyone with information to call (323) 890-5500 to contact the homicide detective.
