{"id":489286,"date":"2026-10-08T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489286\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:52:09","slug":"oakland-county-man-sentenced-for-shooting-death-of-his-23-year-old-fiancee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489286\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County man sentenced for shooting death of his 23-year-old fianc\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">HARRISON TWP., Mich. \u2013 An Oakland County man accused of fatally shooting his 23-year-old fianc\u00e9e in the home they shared has been sentenced this week to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Michael Devon Webb, of Highland Township, was charged with first-degree murder in April 2025 for the death of Rachel Renee Wooten. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Police say Wooten was shot at their residence in the Highland Hills mobile home complex of Highland Road, suffering a single gunshot wound to her neck. Webb called 911, but Wooten was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IOP74QKEMRBGHDOUW7RBPLHGYU.jpg\"\/>Michael Devon Webb, of Highland Township, was charged with first-degree murder in April 2025 for the death of his 23-year-old fianc\u00e9e, Rachel Renee Wooten. (Courtesy Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Though Webb claimed the shooting was accidental and occurred while he was \u201ccleaning his gun,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said the evidence didn\u2019t support that, and an Oakland County jury found him guilty of first-degree murder in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cI am proud of our investigators and team that responded to a tragic death and unraveled a false offered narrative to hold an individual accountable,\u201d Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said in response to the case.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISON TWP., Mich. \u2013 An Oakland County man accused of fatally shooting his 23-year-old fianc\u00e9e in the home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5364,150869,143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-489286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-gun-violence","tag-harrison-township","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489286","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=489286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}