Rodney Lewis, 22, was among six people murdered during a robbery that turned into a mass shooting inside a crack house on St. Aubin Street in Detroit on April 4, 1990. Victims included Steven Owens, Bobby Frazier, 16; Carl Williams, 21; Robert Hill, 15; and LeVon Robinson, 18. Survivors’ statements helped lead to four arrests. Eighteen-year-old Tamara Marie Marshall was accused of organizing the robbery and of shooting her former boyfriend Steven Owens. Co-defendants Jamal Latiff Biggs, Mark Lamond Bell, and Marc Caison were also charged; Marshall was found guilty of multiple counts of first- and second-degree murder and accessory after the fact, and Marshall, Biggs and Bell received mandatory life sentences without parole. Marc Caison was scheduled for a later trial.

A separate Detroit killing of a different man named Rodney Lewis occurred on May 15, 2001, when Lewis was shot in a store parking lot after an encounter with another man. The shooter later surrendered, claimed self-defense, but an autopsy showed Lewis had been shot twice in the back and once in the head; the shooter was convicted of first-degree murder and related offenses and received a life sentence.

Does anyone have additional details about the 1990 St. Aubin Street case or remember the trial coverage?