Shooting at splash pad in Detroit suburb injures 8 people, including 2 children, authorities say

ROCHESTER HILLS, Michigan -- Eight radical were injured aft a shooter opened occurrence astatine a splash pad successful a Detroit suburb wherever families gathered to flight the summertime vigor Saturday, authorities said. Law enforcement tracked a fishy to a home, wherever the idiosyncratic died by suicide.

At slightest 2 of the victims were children, officials said. Authorities initially said they believed arsenic galore arsenic 10 radical had gunshot wounds from the shooting successful Rochester Hills, but that fig was lowered aboriginal connected aft they checked with country hospitals.

Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said a fishy was contained successful a location nearby, and instrumentality enforcement had it surrounded. Rochester constabulary announced Saturday nighttime that the idiosyncratic took their ain life.

The shooting happened conscionable aft 5 p.m. astatine a metropolis parkland featuring a recreation country with a non-slip aboveground wherever radical tin crook connected sprays and fountains of h2o to play in. Bouchard said it the shooting appeared to beryllium random, with the shooter driving up to the park, walking to the splash pad and firing arsenic galore arsenic 28 times, stopping aggregate times to reload.

A handgun and 3 bare magazines were recovered, the sheriff said.

Police cordoned disconnected the country of the shooting with tape, and dozens of yellowish grounds markers laic connected on the crushed among colorful folding chairs.

In a societal media post, authorities said determination was inactive an progressive transgression country and asked radical to debar the area. Bouchard said it was harmless for those sheltering successful the parkland to caput home.

It was not instantly wide if different radical oregon weapons were wrong the location with the imaginable suspect, Bouchard said, and instrumentality enforcement officials were trying to marque interaction with him.

The victims were taken to hospitals, and their conditions were not instantly known.

Police heard the 911 telephone reporting the shooting arsenic it came in, Bouchard said, due to the fact that the bureau uses a work that simultaneously sends exigency calls to archetypal responders. An serviceman was astatine the country wrong 2 minutes, helium said.

Rochester Hills is astir 15 miles (24 kilometers) southbound of Oxford, wherever successful 2021 a 15-year-old fatally changeable 4 precocious schoolhouse students.

Saturday's shooting came astatine the extremity of the archetypal afloat week of summertime abrogation for students attending Rochester Community schools.

Bouchard called it "a gut punch" for the county.

"We've gone done truthful galore tragedies," the sheriff said. "You know, we're not adjacent afloat comprehending what happened astatine Oxford. And, you know, present we person different implicit calamity that we're dealing with."

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said connected the societal level X that she was heartbroken to larn of the shooting and was successful interaction with section officials.