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.
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.
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.
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.
If convicted of first-degree murder, Conner faces a sentencing range of 23 to 28 years.
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