Sherrone Moore told of alleged rape in 2024, per Ann Arbor police report

New documents show a woman told Ann Arbor police she went to ex-University of Michigan coach Sherrone Moore the day after a U-M football staffer allegedly raped her in 2024. But Ann Arbor police say they learned of the sexual assault allegation this year, and university police say they never investigated at all.

Moore's involvement was revealed only after the Detroit Free Press successfully appealed a decision by Ann Arbor police to withhold Moore's name from the original records released in response to a request made under state open records laws.

The university won't comment on the situation, and Ann Arbor police haven't answered questions as to why they initially withheld Moore's name. Moore's lawyer previously denied the coach failed to report misconduct, but in a recent interview wouldn't say whether the woman ever told him about the rape allegation or if he ever took that information to university officials.

However, the university did recently agree to pay the woman and her lawyer a $1.2 million settlement. The payment − only revealed through a request made via the state's Freedom of Information Act − and questions about the university's reporting practices come amid a sea of misconduct allegations and lawsuits plaguing the university's athletic department.

An Ann Arbor police spokesman confirmed in late August the department closed a sexual assault investigation without charging former U-M staffer LaTroy Lewis. In February, Ann Arbor police confirmed they were investigating Lewis in relation to an alleged sexual assault from December 2024. Around the same time, Lewis lost a coaching job with the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. A lawyer for Lewis has denied the allegation.

In early September, The Free Press obtained a heavily redacted version of the police investigation into Lewis. In this version, Moore's name was redacted. The Free Press appealed to the Ann Arbor city administrator to release an unredacted version; he agreed.

The newly unredacted report states the day after a woman says Lewis raped her in 2024, she contacted Moore to tell him about the assault.

“The next day, she reported the incident to SHERRONE MOORE, who was the head coach of University of Michigan Football at the time and also a mandated reporter. MOORE stated he would handle it...,” the updated police report states.

"The conversation with MOORE was through Snapchat audio. LEWIS later called [the woman] 16 times the same day she reported the incident to MOORE."

The Free Press generally does not publish the names of people who say they are victims of sexual assault without their consent. The report also states the woman's lawyer, Karen Truszkowski, emailed an Ann Arbor police officer "images of conversations via Snapchat" between the woman and Moore.

A university policy announced in 2021 would have required head coaches to report a sexual misconduct allegation to a school office tasked with reviewing such accusations. It appears this policy was in effect in December 2024, when the woman says she told Moore about the alleged assault. But a university police spokeswoman said the department never investigated any allegation against Lewis, and records show Ann Arbor police were unaware of the allegation until earlier this year.

The report indicates on Aug. 19, 2026, "This case will be closed due to inactivity but can be re-opened at any time." The woman involved initially spoke with police but ultimately did not participate in follow up interviews, the report shows.

In late February, after going to Ann Arbor police, the woman filed for a restraining order in Washtenaw County against Lewis. In her request, granted and made publicly available in early March, she said Lewis, "raped & assaulted me."

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Truszkowski previously told the Free Press she could not comment on the financial settlement. But the police report notes Truszkowski contacted the police in early September to talk about the case after it was publicly reported that the department closed the investigation.

Moore’s eventual ouster by the university in 2025 spurred a broader investigation by a private law firm into the culture of the athletic department, a probe that cost more than $12 million. The university did not release the firm’s findings; a purported summary suggested no widespread wrongdoing but did include “strengthening reporting processes” as one of many proposed changes for the department.

A U-M spokesman declined to say whether Moore reported the allegation to someone at the university.

Earlier this year, Moore’s lawyer denied allegations of wrongdoing.

"Sherrone Moore did not fail to report misconduct, did not reward wrongdoing, and did not harass anyone," Moore's lawyer, Ellen Michaels, said in a February statement to the Free Press. "These claims are false."

On Tuesday, Sept. 28, Michaels declined to say whether Moore received the allegation of rape and properly reported it to university officials or if he never received the complaint.

The university has updated its policies on who is required to report allegations of sexual misconduct multiple times since this alleged encounter. However, university records show in late 2024, a head coach of an athletic team would be what the school considered an “individual with reporting obligations.”

That means school policy at the time required Moore and others who fell into this category “to report all information about prohibited conduct they receive, regardless of how or when they learn of the information.”

Melissa Overton, a spokeswoman for the University of Michigan-Division of Public Safety & Security, recently said in an email to the Free Press her department had no record of any investigation involving Lewis.

Moore was fired in 2025 after the university accused him of lying about having a romantic relationship with a subordinate. That same day, he went to the subordinate's home; the encounter resulted in criminal charges against Moore. He ultimately pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to probation.

The subordinate, Paige Shiver, and her lawyers have called for accountability from the school. They recently re-filed a lawsuit against the university in the Michigan Court of Claims; they're arguing the school is violating the state Freedom of Information Act by refusing to release the findings of the law firm's investigation related to Moore and the department's culture.

Dave Boucher is an investigative reporter with the Detroit Free Press. Reach him at dboucher@freepress.com.