A gunman shot and wounded nine people, including two children, at a water park near Detroit Saturday night before shooting himself after being cornered by police, authorities said.
Authorities called the incident a random shooting and said they cornered the suspect in a nearby home, where he died after shooting himself.
The local sheriff showed an image of a semi-automatic rifle from inside the house where the unidentified suspect was located. A firearm was recovered at the scene of the shooting, authorities added.
The suspect was described as a 42-year-old man and the motive for the shooting was unclear.
An 8-year-old boy was in critical condition after being shot in the head, while his 4-year-old brother was also injured but stable. Their mother was also in critical condition after being wounded in the abdomen and leg, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told reporters.
The other six victims, all 30 years old or older, were in stable condition, according to Bouchard.
The suspect got out of a vehicle in front of the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad park in Rochester Hills, Michigan, around 5 p.m. and fired about 30 shots from a 9mm semiautomatic Glock, reloading several times, Bouchard said at a news conference .
Rochester Hills is located about 30 miles north of Detroit. The nearby community of Oxford Township, also in Oakland County, was the site of a mass school shooting in 2021, when student Ethan Crumbley, then 15, killed four students and injured six others and a teacher at Oxford High School.
“It’s a gut punch, obviously, for us here in Oakland County,” Bouchard said Saturday. “We’ve lived through so many tragedies, you know. We still don’t fully understand what happened in Oxford.”
Source: Terra
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