Found Deceased MI - Nicholas Russel O’Neal, Missing, Rockwood

[imstilla.grandma]

Police are searching for a 24-year-old man whose vehicle was located at the Sigler Road entrance to the Pointe Mouillee State Game Area.

Nicholas Russel O’Neal was last seen on July 4 at 9:30 p.m., according to a missing persons alert posted on the Rockwood Police Department Facebook page.

24-year-old man missing, vehicle found at Pointe Mouillee State Game Area

Nicholas Russel O’Neal was last seen on July 4 at 9:30 p.m.

www.monroenews.com

MISSING PERSON ALERT
Nicholas Russel O’Neal
24 YOA Height: 6’1 Weight: 135lbs
Slender build - Blonde/Light Brown hair - Blue eyes.
Last seen wearing Khaki pants, blue hoodie, sneakers and a black Adidas ball cap on 7/4/2022 at 9:30PM.
Vehicle was located at the Sigler Road entrance to the Pointe Mouillee State Game Area, (East of U.S. turnpike).
If anyone has any information please contact the Rockwood Police Dept. (734) 379-5323 or the Monroe County Sheriff's Office (734) 240-7594.

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I saw one piece of chatter that I thought was interesting - it seems there was a rare bird sighting at that location and when word spread there were lots of people headed to the area:

"Photographer Justin Labadie was birding Monday at Pointe Mouillee State Game Area, scanning one of the 4,000-acre preserve’s marshy shorelines, when he spotted a reddish-legged shorebird that looked different than the others around it. A quick Google search and a few texts to birding colleagues confirmed that Labadie could officially report the rarest sighting he’d ever made.

“My goal when I go out birding is always to find new birds. But I’ve never found one that was a state first or a county first, let alone a country first,” Labadie said. “In the birding world, it doesn’t get any bigger than this.”

Word travels quickly among dedicated birders, and within a half hour of the sighting’s confirmation, dozens of people had arrived on the scene, with even more birders en route from Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

“[Birding] is almost like a lifestyle, to where things come up for people they’ll drop what they’re doing to see a bird that they haven’t seen before,” Labadie said. “When you get to ‘U.S. first,’ people get excited.”

About 60 people had arrived at Pointe Mouillee on Tuesday morning in search of the bird, which has not yet been re-found".

Rare Eurasian bird spotted in Michigan, first sighting in US

A shorebird known as a common redshank was found near Detroit this weekend, a few thousand miles from home.

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I don't know when LE was aware about Nicholas missing, but with all those feet on the ground in the area I wish they would have been able to have those birders also watch out for anything unusual while walking the area.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The victim was identified as Nicholas Russel O’Neal, 24, who lived in the Rockwood area. The body being located was confirmed by Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough. Cause of death was not released, but Goodnough stated foul play was not suspected

Body of 24-year-old missing man found in Pointe Mouillee State Game Area

The victim was identified as Nicholas Russel O’Neal, 24, who lived in the Rockwood area. Cause of death was not released.

www.monroenews.com

 

[YaYa_521]

Rest in peace, Nick.