As many as 10 people including children have been shot and wounded at a water park near Detroit, with police calling the incident random gunfire.
The suspect was still at large late on Saturday, but police said they believed he was cornered in a house nearby. The gun was found at the scene, police said.
A man got out of a vehicle in front of Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad park at Rochester Hills in Michigan, about 5pm and fired about 30 shots from a 9mm semiautomatic Glock, reloading several times, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told a press conference.
It was not immediately clear if there were any fatalities, said police, who had initially reported five people shot.
Rochester Hills is about 50km north of Detroit. The neighbouring community Oxford Township, also in Oakland County, was the scene of a 2021 mass school shooting where student Ethan Crumbley, then 15, killed four students and wounded six other students and a teacher at Oxford High School.
“It’s a gut punch, obviously, for us here in Oakland County,” Bouchard said.
“We’ve gone through so many tragedies, you know. We’re not even fully comprehending what happened at Oxford.”
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on social media platform X, “I am heartbroken to learn about the shooting in Rochester Hills.”
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