© 2024 WNMU-FM
Upper Great Lakes News, Music, and Arts & Culture
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Car pins, kills man in Houghton County

CALUMET TOWNSHIP, MI--   The Houghton County Sheriff’s Department investigated an accidental death in Calumet Township over the weekend.  

Deputies responded Saturday around 6:45 a.m.  to a report of a man trapped under a vehicle on Boundary Street.  It appears the man—identified as Michael Joseph Lynch, 49—was working on the car when it rolled off its ramps and pinned him underneath. 

The Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by Calumet Fire and Rescue. 

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.