Lanai Dees: Family, investigators seek answers in deadly South LA shooting

The Brief

  • The family of 21-year-old aspiring nurse Lanai Dees is pleading for the public’s help to find the gunman who shot and killed her in South Los Angeles in November 2024.
  • Investigators say Dees was driving her Mercedes through an alley near Wilton Place and Century Boulevard when she was hit by a single gunshot, causing her to crash.
  • A $20,000 reward is being offered for any key information that leads to an arrest in the unsolved killing.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. The family of 21-year-old Lanai Dees continues searching for answers and seeking justice after the aspiring nurse was shot and killed in South Los Angeles.

What we know:

Officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the shooting happened on Nov. 17, 2024, around 12:30 a.m. Investigators said Dees was driving her white Mercedes through an alley near the intersection of Wilton Place and Century Boulevard when she was struck by a single gunshot.

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