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Authorities called the incident random gunfire and said they
cornered the suspect in a house nearby, where he died after
shooting himself.
The local sheriff showed an image of a semiautomatic rifle from
inside the house to which the unnamed suspect was tracked. A
handgun was recovered from the scene of the shooting, officials
added. The suspect was described as a 42-year-old man, while the
motives for the shooting were not clear.
An 8-year-old boy was in critical condition after being shot in
the head while his 4-year-old brother was also wounded but
stable. Their mother was in critical condition, too, after being
hurt in the abdomen and leg, Oakland County Sheriff Michael
Bouchard told reporters.
The other six victims, all aged 30 or older, were in stable
condition according to Bouchard.
The suspect had got out of a vehicle in front of Brooklands
Plaza Splash Pad park in Rochester Hills, Michigan, about 5 p.m.
(2100 GMT) and fired about 30 shots from a 9mm semiautomatic
Glock, reloading several times, Bouchard said in a press
conference.
Rochester Hills is about 30 miles (50 km) north of Detroit. The
neighboring 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 on Saturday. "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 X, "I am heartbroken
to learn about the shooting in Rochester Hills."
(Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta and Kanishka Singh in
Washington; Editing by William Mallard)
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