February 6, 2021 A White Lake Township man who had gone missing is reported dead.
Oakland County Sheriffâs Office deputies were dispatched to the area of Beaumont Road and Livingston Road in Highland Township, just before 8:30pm, Thursday, for a missing person.
According to the sheriffâs report, the caller stated her father, a 55-year old male from White Lake Township, had gone to that area to retrieve a hunting blind at 5pm and had not returned. Deputies arrived to find his vehicle in the area unoccupied, and requested the help of the Sheriffâs Search & Rescue Team with their quad runners and a K-9 unit to search for the man. Also assisting on the search was the Marine Emergency Support Team and family members. The missing personâs brother-in-law found the victim, as the police reports states, âobviously deceased.â
Man accused of stabbing stepfather to death, attacking mother
Christopher McKinney
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MADISON HEIGHTS A Madison Heights man has been charged with murder after reportedly killing his stepfather and wounding his mother over a dispute about playing video games.
The incident occurred around 11:40 p.m. Dec. 11, inside the family’s home at an apartment complex in the 300 block of East Edmund Avenue near Harlo Avenue, east of John R Road and south of Whitcomb Avenue in Madison Heights.
The suspect is Christopher McKinney, 29. His mother is 66. The stepfather was 77 when he died from his wounds at a hospital four days later on Dec. 15. McKinney was arraigned Dec. 14 in Madison Heights 43rd District Court by Magistrate Kimberly Wilson on two counts of assault with intent to murder, and two counts of assaulting, resisting and obstructing a police officer. On Dec. 16, after the stepfather died, one of the two counts of assault with intent to murder was changed to one count o
The Hamilton, a new $9.4 million low and moderate income apartment complex, is wrapping construction in downtown Pontiac.
By April, as the nation began to feel the first waves of the virus, Pontiac had become home to the countyâs first testing site. Large tents stood guard over medical staff behind the Oakland County Medical Examiner s Office on Telegraph Road. Trickles of cars became streams as the pandemic wore on, with the site able to test 250 people per day.
âEven in the face of the pandemic, which has affected everyone, we never slowed down here in Pontiac,â Deirdre Waterman, mayor of the city, said. âWe just learned how to work around it, how to accommodate the changes necessary to keep people healthy and safe.â