An ex-con is set to be arraigned next month on murder and other felony charges stemming from the Jan. 9 shooting death of a woman who was walking to a vehicle with her dog in Koreatown.
Lamont Deshon Dorsey, 28, is also charged with one count each of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, cruelty to an animal and possession of a firearm by a felon. The criminal complaint filed Wednesday alleges that he personally used a semiautomatic firearm and that he has an April 2019 conviction for robbery in Los Angeles County.
The shooting occurred about 1:10 a.m. near the intersection of Council Street and Mariposa Avenue. Witnesses told police that Katherine McNally was walking to her vehicle with her dog when the suspect approached and shot the 38-year-old woman. Her dog was also wounded, but survived the attack, police said.
Dorsey was arrested Monday morning in the 900 block of South Olive Street by a Los Angeles Police Department-FBI fugitive task force, and is due in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on March 17.