Crime & Safety

Update: Sheriff's Officers Investigate Suicide in Park

Police say man found dead at Veterans Memorial Pointe.

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office responded around noon Tuesday to a dead body found near  in Rochester Hills.

Sheriff's department Captain Michael Johnson of the Rochester Hills substation confirmed the body was a man and the death was a suicide.

The man was found inside the park, which is at the corner of Livernois and Avon roads, one of the city's busiest intersections. 

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The park runs alongside the Clinton River Trail.

About six sheriff's and unmarked vehicles were still on site around 2 p.m.; the park was surrounded by yellow police tape.

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