In summer 2001 in Detroit, three-month-old Isaiah Lewis died of multiple blunt force injuries; an autopsy ruled his death a homicide. Isaiah’s mother, then 21-year-old Shaniqua Betty, had left home after a dispute with her boyfriend and went to a bus stop without her purse or shoes. Police say Betty entrusted the infant to Harold Reed at that stop while she went back to her house. Isaiah’s body was later found in an abandoned house.

Authorities say Reed admitted to striking the child to stop him from crying. Reed was arrested and, after a 2002 jury trial, convicted of felony murder, second-degree murder, and first-degree child abuse. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Betty pleaded no contest to child abuse and received one year of probation and mandatory counseling under a plea agreement.

Are there readers who remember the Detroit neighborhood where Isaiah was found or who have information about this case?