Five people were found dead in rural northern Michigan on Friday, state police said.<\/p>\n
A suspected gunman was also found deceased, Michigan State Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Troopers responding to a late-morning report of a shooting found three people dead at a residence in the Missaukee County community of Lake Township, roughly 260 miles north-northwest of Detroit, police said.<\/p>\n
A fourth person was critically injured, they said.<\/p>\n
Police named Chad Hickman, 39, as a suspect and said he fled the scene. In their search for him, troopers found a fourth person dead at another residence in Missaukee County, they said.<\/p>\n
They also found the suspect\u2019s vehicle near a wooded area close to Whitlock Lake in Caldwell Township. They eventually discovered Hickman and another person dead in the woods nearby, police said.<\/p>\n
The dead range in age from 16 to 45, state police said in an update Saturday.<\/p>\n
The injured person is a 13-year-old girl who was transported to a hospital in critical condition, and on Saturday she was stable, state police said.<\/p>\n
The first three people found dead were a 45-year-old man, a 40-year-old woman and 16-year-old boy, police said. <\/p>\n
They were located at a Lake Township home where the 13-year-old was found shot, the agency said.<\/p>\n
Then a 53-year-old man was shot dead at another home, and when Hickman was later found dead the decreased person with him was a 29-year-old woman, police said.<\/p>\n
State police on Saturday did not identify any of the victims Saturday.<\/p>\n
It said investigators \u201chave identified the five victims by age and gender though not by relationship to each other at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
A possible motive in the shootings remains under investigation, state police said Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis situation is heartbreaking for the community and challenging for the investigators involved,\u201d Lt. Ashley Miller of the state police said in the statement Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people were found dead in rural northern Michigan on Friday, state police said. A suspected gunman was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-814852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}