(L.A.) Lanai Dees, 21, Died From a Head Shot

Case Number: 2024-17973

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 21-year-old Black female that occurred in a vehicle.

The coroner’s office has identified the woman as Lanai Dees of Inglewood.

Manner of Death: Homicide

Cause of Death: Gunshot Wound to the Head

RIP LANAI ARIYANA DEES (January 25, 2003 – November 17, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Sunday at 12:58 a.m.

According to her family, the decedent was found with gunshot wounds inside her wrecked car in an alleyway in South L.A.

LASD deputies had responded to the 2000 block of Century Boulevard near Wilton Place at around 12:46 a.m. on reports of a shooting.