Up to 10 people, including children, were shot and injured at a city-run water park near Detroit in what appeared to be a random attack, police said.
The suspect remained at large late Saturday, but police said they believed he was cornered in a nearby home. A handgun and three empty magazines were found at the scene, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told a news conference.
A man got 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 30 shots from a 9mm semiautomatic Glock, which reloaded several times, Bouchard said.
The victims were taken to hospitals and their condition was not yet known, said police, who initially reported that five people had been shot. Among the injured was an eight-year-old child.
Police had surrounded the house where the possible suspect was believed to be hiding, Bouchard said. It was not immediately clear if there were other people or weapons inside with him. Law enforcement officials attempted to contact him, Bouchard said.
Rochester Hills is located about 30 miles north of Detroit. The neighboring community, 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.
“It’s obviously a big blow to us here in Oakland County,” Bouchard said. “We’ve had so many tragedies, you know. We don’t even fully understand what happened in Oxford.”
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on X: “I am heartbroken to hear about the shooting in Rochester Hills.”
There have been more than 215 mass shootings in the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
The impartial online source defines a mass shooting as a shooting that injures or kills four or more victims.
The high number of mass shootings in the US has led to calls for Congress to pass more substantive gun control measures, but such calls have largely gone unheeded.
Reuters and Associated Press contributed to this report
