A gunman shot and wounded nine people, including two children, at a water park near Detroit on 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 turning the gun on himself.
The local sheriff showed an image of a semi-automatic rifle from inside the home to which the anonymous suspect was traced. A gun was recovered at the scene of the shooting, authorities added. The suspect was described as a 42-year-old man, while the motive for the shooting was unclear.
An 8-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the head, while his 4-year-old brother is also injured but stable. His mother was also in critical condition after being wounded in the abdomen and leg, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told the press.
The other six victims, all aged 30 or older, were in stable condition, according to Bouchard.
The suspect had gotten out of a vehicle in front of the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad park in Rochester Hills, Michigan, around 5 p.m. (local time) and fired about thirty shots with a 9-millimeter semi-automatic Glock, reloading several times, Bouchard said at a press conference. .
Rochester Hills is about 50 miles north of Detroit. The neighboring community of Oxford Township, also in Oakland County, was the scene of a mass school shooting in 2021 in which student Ethan Crumbley, then 15, killed four students and injured six other students and a teacher. at Oxford High School.
