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15-Year-Old Sought In Grandmother's Stabbing Death Found Dead On Train Tracks

SPRINGFIELD TWP. (WWJ) - Investigators say an Oakland County teenager who was wanted in his grandmother's murder has likely been found dead.

Police say the situation unfolded just after 5:40 a.m. Tuesday when they received a call from a man who said his son, 15-year-old Steven Kelvin Wilkerson, had left a note at his home saying he was going to kill his grandmother.

Deputies responded to the 65-year-old woman's home in the Oakhill Estates mobile home park, in Springfield Township, and found her dead in a bedroom with multiple stab wounds. The suspected murder weapon, a large kitchen knife, was recovered at the scene.

According to police, Wilkerson apparently rode his bike to his grandmother's home sometime between midnight and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday and allegedly stabbed her to death. He then fled the scene in her vehicle, a black 2006 Pontiac G6 with Michigan license plate "BAM 0631."

Police issued a state-wide alert for Wilkerson and the stolen vehicle, saying the teen was armed with an "unknown stabbing instrument."

Just after 11 a.m., police located the woman's vehicle nearby in Holly. Detectives also located a body, believed to be the suspect, on the railroad tracks. "It is obvious the body was struck by a passing train," police said in a statement.

Holly Village Police Chief Mike Storey said it appears the teen took his own life.

"Obviously the individual, you know, he was found laying on the railroad tracks. So, not seeing what happened -- I mean, you can only surmise what happened to him," Storey told WWJ's Charlie Langton. "The accessibility is very easy. You know, it's an open area over there, it's part of a residential and business district."

The body has not been positively identified yet.

Other circumstances that led to the stabbing weren't immediately clear. An investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 248-858-4951.

Stay with WWJ Newsradio 950 and CBSDetroit.com for the latest. 

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