On February 2, 2015, a domestic argument at a Fenton Street home in Detroit ended with 47-year-old Cornell Robert Lewis shot and killed inside his residence. The dispute reportedly began over another woman Cornell Lewis was allegedly seeing.

Their children were present during the altercation. The couple’s 8-year-old daughter suffered a superficial gunshot wound to her leg, and their 11-year-old son escaped by jumping from a window without physical injury. Jacqueline Lewis, 38 at the time, was arrested and charged with premeditated murder, two counts of assault with intent to murder related to the children, and felonious assault. Prosecutors presented a note found in the home as evidence of premeditation; the defense maintained she was a battered woman acting in self-defense and pointed to bruises on her body.

A jury convicted Jacqueline Lewis of the lesser offense of manslaughter along with assault with intent to do great bodily harm and felony firearm. She was sentenced to 100 months to 15 years for manslaughter and received additional time for the other convictions. Does anyone have further information about the family or the events leading up to that night?