Rene Sheppard
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Rene Sheppard is a fictional police detective of the Baltimore Police Department on Homicide: Life on the Street
, played by Michael Michele
. At 29, Sheppard first appeared in Season 7. Rene was Miss Anne Arundel County (beauty pageant queen) sometime prior to joining the Baltimore Police Department. She came into the Homicide Section from the Escape and Apprehension Section (Fugitive Squad) and was partnered with Meldrick Lewis
until an arrest went bad; Sheppard was severely beaten, and her gun was stolen, causing the department to doubt her ability to do the job. At first fiercely protective of his partner, Lewis soon grew unable to trust her, leading to tension between the two and often resulting in Lewis and Sheppard's seeking other partners. After spending her recovery time behind a desk, Sheppard was allowed to be the primary on the "Internet Killer" case, and redeemed herself somewhat by leading the investigation that led to Internet Killer Luke Ryland's arrest; however, her reputation never fully recovered from the beating incident.
Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale...
, played by Michael Michele
Michael Michele
Michael Michele is an American film and television actress. She played Dr. Cleo Finch on the medical drama ER and Det. Rene Sheppard on the police procedural Homicide: Life on the Street...
. At 29, Sheppard first appeared in Season 7. Rene was Miss Anne Arundel County (beauty pageant queen) sometime prior to joining the Baltimore Police Department. She came into the Homicide Section from the Escape and Apprehension Section (Fugitive Squad) and was partnered with Meldrick Lewis
Meldrick Lewis
Meldrick Lewis is a fictional character on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street played by Clark Johnson. The character was in the series for its full run and had the very first and last lines of the series...
until an arrest went bad; Sheppard was severely beaten, and her gun was stolen, causing the department to doubt her ability to do the job. At first fiercely protective of his partner, Lewis soon grew unable to trust her, leading to tension between the two and often resulting in Lewis and Sheppard's seeking other partners. After spending her recovery time behind a desk, Sheppard was allowed to be the primary on the "Internet Killer" case, and redeemed herself somewhat by leading the investigation that led to Internet Killer Luke Ryland's arrest; however, her reputation never fully recovered from the beating incident.