Tucson Strip Clubs: Fla. man acquitted in Tucson killing
A former Tucson resident facing a potential life sentence in a seven-year-old homicide case was acquitted by a Pima County jury Wednesday.
Reginald Reed, 47, was arrested in Florida last fall on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the death of Lewis Washington, 39.
Reed’s wife, Brandi, testified Tuesday he was home with her the night Washington died, but a friend of the two men, Steven Jones, told jurors Reed killed Washington and tried to kill him, too.
Jones testified Reed became upset with Washington in September 2001 because he’d heard rumors Washington had called Reed’s girlfriend, who is now his wife, a disparaging name.
On Sept. 14, 2001, Jones said he rode to a Tucson strip bar with Reed so they could straighten things out with Washington.