Neighbor of suspect in Rochester Hills water fountain shooting describes witnessing standoff with police

(CBS DETROIT) – Neighbors say the shooter suspected of injuring nine peopleincluding two children, Saturday at a Rochester Hills wading pool was quiet, kept to himself and didn't really engage with the people living around him.

“Who knows what his plans were? He could have come back, you know. Some neighbors thought maybe he wanted to do something to us here, but there was no one there, so he left,” said Michelle Wheeler , a neighbor of the suspected shooter, Michael William Nash, 42, of Shelby Township.

After the shooting, the suspect fled the scene and went to his home. Authorities surrounded the barricaded home in Shelby Township and a standoff ensued. The suspect then committed suicide following the standoff.

While the suspect was barricaded, police evacuated Wheeler, forcing her to go to another part of the mobile home park where she was to monitor everything from her security cameras.

Wheeler says she's only lived there for about a year, but the shooter's neighbor, Kyleen Duchene-McDougall, says she's lived next door for two decades.

“He was just quiet. I keep calling him a brat because we've been here 20 years. He's 42; I don't know how it happened. But just quiet. He didn't work since COVID. He just stays in the house; all the blinds are always drawn; there's never any blinds or anything open, and he stays alone,” Duchene-McDougall said.

Duchene-McDougall says conversations between her and the shooter's mother were always informal, and she says the shooter's father died a few years ago.

“I don't know why or what he was involved in as far as her mental state. She never shared that with me. It was just more like, 'Hi, how are you?' Duchene-McDougall said.