ITHACA, MI — Police are investigating the shooting death of an 11-year-old girl in mid-Michigan.

Gratiot County Sheriff’s deputies at 10:18 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, responded to a residence on West Tyler Road in Arcada Township. That’s just south of Alma. There, they discovered the girl deceased from an apparent gunshot wound to her head, deputies report.

The girl had been home alone and a relative discovered her dead, deputies report.

The matter is being treated as a homicide, but police aren’t saying what they think happened.

Deputies said "there appears to be no danger to the public.”