Mass shooting at US water park

At least ten people, including children, were shot and injured at a municipal water park near Detroit, United States, according to police.

The suspect was still at large Saturday evening, but police said they believed he was trapped in a nearby home.

Police described the incident as a random shooting and a weapon was found at the scene.

A man got out of a vehicle in front of Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad Park in Rochester Hills, Michigan, around 5 p.m. local time and fired approximately 30 shots from a 9mm semi-automatic Glock, reloading several times , said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. press conference.

It was not immediately clear whether there were any deaths, said police, who initially reported five people shot.

Rochester Hills is about 30 miles north of Detroit.

The neighboring community of Oxford Township, also in Oakland County, was the scene of a mass school shooting in 2021, in which student Ethan Crumbley, then 15, was shot. killed four students and injured six other students and a teacher at Oxford High School.

“It’s obviously a gut punch for us here in Oakland County,” Bouchard said. “We've been through so much tragedy, you know. We don't even fully understand what happened at Oxford.”

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