{"id":4956,"date":"2008-04-15T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/arraignment-in-stabbing-death-is-april-21\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:30:36","slug":"arraignment-in-stabbing-death-is-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/arraignment-in-stabbing-death-is-april-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Arraignment in stabbing death is April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Edward Connor, the man charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of a Kent woman last year, is scheduled to be arraigned 9 a.m. April 21 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Connor, 28, who once lived in SeaTac, waived extradition proceedings last week in California, where he was in prison for a parole violation on an armed-robbery conviction. Connor was booked April 8 in the King County Jail in Seattle, with bail set at $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>King County prosecutors charged Connor with first-degree murder March 25 in connection with the death of Merianne Lorentson, 24, in her East Hill apartment. Lorentson, a single mother of a then 5-year-old daughter, was found March 9, 2007 stabbed to death in her living room at an apartment in the 10400 block of Kent-Kangley Road. Connor had dated Lorentson.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Kent detectives used DNA test results, cell phone records and interviews with friends and relatives of Conner and Lorentson to build their case against Connor.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted of first-degree murder, Conner faces a sentencing range of 23 to 28 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Edward Connor, the man charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of a Kent woman last year, is scheduled to be arraigned 9 a.m. April 21 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}