Tragedy struck a Goodrich family Friday when a 50-year-old man was found dead after apparently falling from a tree stand.
The man had permission to hunt on private property off Ortonville Road north of I-75 in Independence Township, and was expected to return home around 5p.m.
His family called police around 11p.m., and Oakland County Sheriff’s Deputies searched the wooded area and eventually found the man deceased on the ground, about 30 feet below the strap-on tree stand from which he appeared to have accidently fallen. An investigation is underway.