Police release name of man found dead on West Road; missing pickup truck found
EAST LANSING – Police have identified a man found dead Tuesday morning on West Road as Michael Wayne Son Jr., 38.
Son was found dead after a driver reported hitting a man who was down in the roadway, East Lansing police said. The incident happened about 5:15 a.m. on West, near Abbey Road.
Police later learned that a pickup truck was missing from Son's residence nearby and believed it might have been stolen, officials said.
The truck – a grey, four-door Dodge RAM owned by Son's father – was later found in the area of Chandler and State roads, East Lansing police Lt. Chad Pride said Thursday.
Investigators were looking for "a person of interest," he said.
Police don't know how Son came to be in the road, Pride said. The driver who hit him tried to render aid and called police, he said.
Anyone with information is asked to call East Lansing police.
Contact Ken Palmer at kpalmer@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @KBPalm_lsj.
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