{"id":182174,"date":"2026-02-18T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182174\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:20:16","slug":"body-found-near-lake-in-oakland-co-identified-police-now-investigating-case-as-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182174\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found near lake in Oakland Co. identified, police now investigating case as homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. &#8211; A 19-year-old man has been identified as the victim of a homicide, after his body was found at a boat launch earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was found with a gunshot wound, and the Oakland County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office has ruled that injury as the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>The body was found in Commerce Township near the Proud Lake boat launch on Wixom Road.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office is now investigating this case a s a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/midmichigannow.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-after-body-found-near-lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police investigating after body found near lake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The victim has been identified as 19-year-old Inkster man Andre Sontay Avant Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a brutal and senseless homicide that has left a family and community searching for answers,\u201d Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. \u201cWe are committed to pursuing justice for this individual and holding every person involved fully accountable. We need the public\u2019s help \u2014 if you saw anything suspicious in the area or have any information, no matter how small it may seem, please come forward. There is a reward being offered, and your information could be the key to bringing those responsible to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest in the case. You can leave a tip by calling 1-800-SPEAK-UP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. &#8211; A 19-year-old man has been identified as the victim of a homicide, after his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-182174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182174","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=182174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}