{"id":331700,"date":"2026-05-25T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:33:08","slug":"25-year-old-man-shot-and-killed-while-in-bedroom-of-pontiac-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331700\/","title":{"rendered":"25-year-old man shot and killed while in bedroom of Pontiac home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) \u2014 The Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is investigating the murder of a 25-year-old Pontiac man that happened Sunday night in the 300 block of Central Ave. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies were called to the home at around 10:00 p.m. on reports that a man had been shot. Brian Keith Washington Jr. was in a bedroom, had been shot in the neck, and was not breathing. Shell casings were later found outside the bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterford Township Regional Fire Department also responded to the scene, and life-saving measures were performed, with Washington being taken to the hospital by paramedics. He was pronounced dead a short time later. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the case, or who may have seen or heard anything in the area at the time of the shooting, is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP. A $2,000 reward is being offered in the case, and you can remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) \u2014 The Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is investigating the murder of a 25-year-old Pontiac man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4551,794,4553,143,145,144,4552],"class_list":["post-331700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-7-action-news","tag-detroit","tag-metro-detroit","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-wxyz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331700","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=331700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}