Connor scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for 2007 murder of Kent woman

Randall Edward Connor is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in King County Superior Court in Seattle for the first-degree murder of Merianne Lorentson in 2007 at her Kent apartment.

Sentencing is set for 3:30 p.m. before Judge Sharon Armstrong at the King County Courthouse, courtroom E-847, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. He faces a sentence range of 23 to 28 years in prison.

A King County Superior Court jury found Connor, 31, guilty on April 14 after one day of deliberations.

Lorentson, 24, an aspiring model and 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. She was stabbed more than 30 times in her head, neck and body, according to the King County Medical Examiner's autopsy report.

Connor, who once lived in SeaTac, had dated Lorentson, according to the charging papers.

Kent detectives used DNA test results, cell phone records and interviews with friends and relatives of Connor and Lorentson to build their case against Connor.

Lorentson had told friends that she feared Connor because he had assaulted and threatened her at gunpoint, according to the charging papers. Connor also had reportedly told Lorentson he would kill any man he saw with her. Relatives of Connor told police that Lorentson had broken up with him.

Connor pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder charge in April 2008.

Contact Kent Reporter Courts, government reporter Steve Hunter at shunter@kentreporter.com or 253-872-6600, ext. 5052.

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