Up to 10 people shot and injured at water park in Detroit, Michigan, police said

At least ten people, including children, were shot and injured in a municipal water park near Detroit on Saturday evening, police said. The incident was the result of random shooting.

The suspect was still at large late Saturday night, but police believe he was arrested at a nearby home. The gun was found at the scene, police said.

A man got out of a vehicle outside the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad Park in Rochester Hills, Michigan, around 5 p.m. (21:00 GMT) and fired about 30 shots from a 9mm Glock semi-automatic, reloading several times, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said at a news conference.

The police said it was still unclear whether there were any fatalities. Initially they had spoken of five people being shot.

Rochester Hills is located about 50 km north of Detroit. The neighboring community of Oxford Township, also in Oakland County, was the scene of a school shooting in 2021 in which then-15-year-old student Ethan Crumbley killed four students and injured six other students and a teacher at Oxford High School.

“This is obviously a gut punch for us here in Oakland County,” Bouchard said. “We’ve seen so much tragedy. What happened in Oxford is something we can’t even fully comprehend.”

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on X: “I am deeply saddened to learn of the shooting in Rochester Hills.”