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Michigan State Police identify age and gender of Missaukee County shooting victims
upnorthlive.com ^ | August 15, 2026 | Clementine Matzky

Posted on 08/16/2026 3:31:18 AM PDT by equaviator

MISSAUKEE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Detectives from the Michigan State Police worked through the night processing three active crime scenes following the shooting deaths of six individuals, including the suspect discovered in Missaukee County Friday.

Investigators said they are continuing to work to find a possible motive for the shootings and have identified the five victims by age and gender but have yet to find a connection between them.

Michigan State police said at 11:40 a.m. on Friday, troopers were dispatched to a home on South LaChance Road in Lake Township for a report of a person who had been shot.

Police said they identified this person as a 13-year-old girl whom they had transported to the hospital in critical condition.

The 13-year-old remains hospitalized, but police said she is in stable condition.

The three people found dead at the South LaChance Road address, police identified as a 45-year-old man, a 40-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy.

According to police, they identified the person found at the second, separate home in Missaukee County as a 53-year-old man.

The individual located in the wooded area near Whitlock Lake, alongside the suspect, 39-year-old Chad Hickman, has been identified by police as a 29-year-old woman, police said.

Police said the investigation remains ongoing.


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1 posted on 08/16/2026 3:31:18 AM PDT by equaviator
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To: equaviator

Horrific. Kids killed.

No, it does not appear to be them Yogi.

Prayers for the family and friends.


2 posted on 08/16/2026 3:58:42 AM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: equaviator

You couldn’t see this nutcase’s pic on the front page?

It is considered a northern rural area, also the counties in the area are for people with second homes, been through that area countless times over the decades. Pretty quiet area.


3 posted on 08/16/2026 4:09:12 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: quantim

You didn’t see the indicator (/s) for sarcasm .


4 posted on 08/16/2026 4:32:23 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: equaviator

Of course I saw it, a mass murder by a nutcase is not IMHO a place for sarcasm, but glad that he killed himself.


5 posted on 08/16/2026 5:06:29 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: equaviator

It all depends upon who thenm refers to. Apparently it involves another transggender, which mayy qualify as another trending trhen. Only this transgender is a woman who does look like a man.


6 posted on 08/16/2026 5:08:58 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Where did you see it reported that the shooter was transgender?


7 posted on 08/16/2026 5:11:40 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
From the article of course:

The individual located in the wooded area near Whitlock Lake, alongside the suspect, 39-year-old Chad Hickman, has been identified by police as a 29-year-old woman, police said.

8 posted on 08/16/2026 5:17:54 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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“The individual located in the wooded area near Whitlock Lake, alongside the suspect, 39-year-old Chad Hickman, has been identified by police as a 29-year-old woman, police said.”

Commas are cool.


9 posted on 08/16/2026 5:25:02 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: equaviator

Did they also get the sex of the victims? Certainly, knowing the sex is far more important than knowing the gender, right?


10 posted on 08/16/2026 5:25:34 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: quantim
"a mass murder by a nutcase is not IMHO a place for sarcasm"

The sarcasm does not pertain to this mass murder or the nutcase that perpetrated them.
11 posted on 08/16/2026 5:27:32 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Robert DeLong

To me that reads as two different people — 1) a female victim and 2) a shooter named Chad Hickman.

If your point is that it’s kinda confusingly written, then yeah I’d agree.


12 posted on 08/16/2026 5:28:52 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: equaviator

Gonna need a biologist to figure out all this.


13 posted on 08/16/2026 5:50:30 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Yardstick
One needs to readdress therir readinf comprehension skills, I guess, because for me it sounds like chad has been identifid by police as being a 29 year girl with another name the way itr is worded in the article.

The individual located in the wooded area near Whitlock Lake, alongside the suspect, 39-year-old Chad Hickman, has been identified by police as a 29-year-old woman, police said.

They are talking about the individual located in the woods located with the suspect. 39 year old ChadHickman, has been identified as a 29 tear old woman

He was initially identified as being Chad Hickman a 39 year old man, but the police have identified is really being a 29 year old woman.

There is no and in the original sentence, that the woman is a third person involved in not identified, nor dfo they identify that woman by name by name, thus the sentence is referring to the person they found alongside the suspect who was origially idetified as a 39 year old man named Chad Michman, has been identified as a 29 year old woman by the police.

One would assume that identification came durring the booking process.

Now it could be a very poorly written sentence, but as written it is saying, without saying, that Chad is really a woman, not a man as first identified as being who was found with the 53 year old male suspect.

14 posted on 08/16/2026 5:54:35 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: equaviator

Prayers to the victims families...


15 posted on 08/16/2026 6:04:21 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: Libloather
Gonna need a biologist to figure out all this.

Why? Most biologists won't even admit that human life begins at fertilization.

16 posted on 08/16/2026 7:04:50 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: equaviator
A male under the age of 35?

If that is what you are referring to, yes. It is.

17 posted on 08/16/2026 11:02:26 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I just want FReepers to READ THE ARTICLE. And then think 30 secs before pounding keyboard.)
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