{"id":465595,"date":"2026-09-16T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:04:09","slug":"full-presser-oakland-county-sheriff-discusses-fatal-shooting-of-3-year-old-boy-in-pontiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465595\/","title":{"rendered":"Full presser: Oakland County sheriff discusses fatal shooting of 3-year-old boy in Pontiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0September 16, 2026 at 7:44 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf hdgIwY yVqjv\">A 3-year-old boy died after being shot inside a Pontiac apartment in what Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard described as a completely avoidable tragedy.<br \/>\nBouchard said on Tuesday (Sept. 15) that preliminary information indicates a handgun inside the home was accessible to someone who should not have been able to reach it.\u00a0<br \/>\nOfficials were still working to determine exactly how the shooting happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0September 16, 2026 at 7:44 AM A 3-year-old boy died after being shot inside a Pontiac apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[183342,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-465595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-full-presser-oakland-county-sheriff-discusses-fatal-shooting-of-3-year-old-boy-in-pontiac","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465595","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=465595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}