{"id":265892,"date":"2026-04-13T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/265892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:08:07","slug":"man-shot-to-death-during-robbery-in-oakland-county-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/265892\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Shot To Death During Robbery In Oakland County: Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTIAC, MI \u2014 A man was arrested in connection with a fatal shooting after a robbery in Oakland County over the weekend, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at a home in the 100 block of Crystal Lake Drive in Pontiac, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived and found 28-year-old Kevonte Javon Smith shot dead in the driveway with a gunshot wound to the back, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told officers the shooter ran away from the area after the shooting. Officers used a K9 unit and drones to search the area. They quickly found the gun and the clothing they believed the shooter was wearing.<\/p>\n<p>Officers then arrested a 36-year-old Pontiac man roughly three hours after the shooting, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>He was not immediately identified. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators believed the shooting happened during a robbery. They said the two men knew each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is so sad to see when lives are lost for absolutely no reason,&#8221; Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. &#8220;We look forward to this individual being held to account for the suspected violent homicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTIAC, MI \u2014 A man was arrested in connection with a fatal shooting after a robbery in Oakland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-265892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265892","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=265892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}