Man shot dead; two in custody A 26-year-old Newport man died of gunshot wounds and two people are in custody following what officials described as a domestic violence situation early this morning. The victim has been identified as Michael Allen Tripp. He died at an area hospital after Monroe County sheriff’s deputies found him lying in a street at the Pleasantville Mobile Home Community on Nadeau Road in Frenchtown Township. According a press release, Deputies Josh Motylinski and Nethanial Oliger were on patrol around 3:15 a.m. in the area of Nadeau Rd. and I-75 when they heard a gunshot. The two searched the vicinity and found the victim lying in the intersection of Pleasantville Dr. and George Dr. at the entrance of the mobile home community.