Authorities have identified the ages and sexes of all six victims involved in a mass killing Friday in Missaukee County.
Michigan State Police were dispatched about 11:40 a.m. Friday to a home on South LaChance Road in Lake Township after receiving a report of a shooting.
When troopers arrived, they found three people dead. On Saturday, MSP identified the deceased victims found there as a 45-year-old male, a 40-year-old female and a 16-year-old male.
A 13-year-old female was also at the home, suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. She was transported to a hospital and remained in critical condition as of Saturday afternoon.
Police were also seen Friday at a home in the unincorporated town of Jennings, about 2.5 miles north of the LaChance Road crime scene. A neighbor identified this location as the home of suspected gunman Chad Hickman, 39.
MSP said troopers found a fourth body, that of a 53-year-old male, at a separate home in Missaukee County. They have not disclosed the exact location or community.
The bodies of Hickman and a 29-year-old woman were later found in a wooded area near Whitlock Lake, which is around 3 miles north of Jennings, authorities said.
The victims’ names and their relationship to one another, and to the suspected killer, have not yet been released.
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