Selonia Reed’s son accepts his father’s guilt
After decades of denying the facts, Reginald Reed Jr. has accepted the evidence that his father brutally slaughtered his mother in 1987. “Reggie Junior,” who was a child when his mother died, also says he has forgiven his father.
What really happened to Selonia Reed?
Judge William Dykes of the 21st District Court sentenced Reginald Lathan Reed, 60, to life in prison without the possibility of parole or probation. Six minutes earlier, Defense Council Vanessa Williams claimed a juror disobeyed the judge’s orders and tried to learn more about the trial from the internet.
Justice at last in Selonia Smith Reed case
On January 11, 2023, the 21st Judicial Court will sentence Reginald Lathan Reed to a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison. A jury unanimously returned his guilty verdict at 7:30 on a Friday night after deliberating only four hours on November 18.
Reginald Reed’s murder trial starts Monday
Jury selection begins Monday, November 14, in the second-degree murder trial of 1998 Hammond mayoral candidate Reginald Lathan Reed. In June 2019, the 2lst Judicial District charged Reed, 62, with the second-degree murder of his wife thirty-five years earlier.