{"id":180729,"date":"2026-02-16T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180729\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:28:10","slug":"mystery-around-gruesome-discovery-in-oakland-county-after-body-found-near-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180729\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery around gruesome discovery in Oakland County after body found near lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0ep2qt2vrveqjm2i.jpg\" alt=\"Body found near Oakland County lake\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/video\/fmc-lca4cv7ubjgycgg5\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Body found near Oakland County lake<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">A visitor to an Oakland County lake made a gruesome discovery when they found the body of a man believed to be in his 20s Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">(FOX 2) &#8211; There are more questions than answers after a surge of officials responded to a Metro Detroit lake following a gruesome discovery in Oakland County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Hours after crews left, many are still left wondering about the identity of the individual who was found near Proud Lake in Commerce Township Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Just before 9 a.m. on Monday, a person visiting a lake in Commerce Township came upon the body of a man on Wixom Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The visitor called police, prompting a major response from the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, who spent hours at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The body is believed to be a male in his 20s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/oakland-county-proud-lake_body.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Officials gather in Commerce Township.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">It&#8217;s unclear how the individual died and the circumstances of his death are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">It&#8217;s also not clear if the man had anything on him at the time of his discovery.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Lucas Daly was at the park around the time of the discovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">&#8220;We all come over here to see what&#8217;s going on. Everything is taped off and we&#8217;re all standing and just watching,&#8221; he said. &#8220;it was just sad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: A statement from the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and an interview with a witness were cited for this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/oakland-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Body found near Oakland County lake A visitor to an Oakland County lake made a gruesome discovery when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2042,249,100,143,904,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-180729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-mi","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}