“ The street knows who did it ”: award offered in the south of the Killing

The authorities called on the public on Thursday for tracks in the unresolved murder in 2024 of a 21 -year -old woman who was shot in an alley in South Los Angeles.

Lanai dees was driving her Mercedes Benz Blanche in an alley on Boulevard Century in the Westmont district at 12:40 p.m. on November 17, when someone in a dark SUV opened fire, Lieutenant Steven de Jong from the Sheriff’s department of the County of Los Angeles.

Dees, deadly injured, crashed on a concrete staircase in the aisle, said Jong.

At a press conference Thursday near the place where Dees died, from Jong said that the Los Angeles County Supervisors Council offered a reward of $ 10,000 for the slopes.

“We believe that someone in the community has key information on this homicide,” said the lieutenant, flanked by members of the Dees family.

His mother, Dahlin dees, said that Dees was studying to become a nurse and described her as “the light of our family”.

The “cowards” who killed his daughter “simply took him and attenuated her,” she said. “It is difficult to pass her room every day and know that she will not go out and will not say:” Hello, mom. I love you, mom. »»

The grandfather of Dees, Odis Sneed, said that if such a murder had occurred in the watts of his childhood, “the hood would not let it run away. Someone would show up and say something.”

“The street knows who has done it,” he said. “If you know something and you say nothing about it, it means that you agree. If you don’t say something, it means that you agree with a 21 -year -old child shot in the street like a dog.”

The Los Angeles County Supervisors Council also offers a reward of $ 15,000 for information on Raejonette Morgan homicide. On July 2, 2024, the 22 -year -old woman was killed in her Mercedes Benz Blanche on Avenue Vermont, about two kilometers from the place where Dees was killed.

De Jong said detectives did not think the two murders are linked. He asked anyone with information to contact homicide detectives to (323) 890-5500.