Sheriff plans to provide update on Michigan mass shooting as investigators search for motive

PONTIAC, Mich. — A sheriff planned to provide an update Monday on the investigation into a weekend shooting that injured nine people at a suburban Detroit splash pad.

The random attack in Rochester Hills was one of four mass shootings in the United States Saturday and Sunday morning.

Michael Nash, 42, fired as many as 28 times Saturday, stopping several times to reload, police said. He then returned home to Shelby Township, where he committed suicide.

Nash had no criminal history but apparently privately suffered from “mental health issues,” Sheriff Mike Bouchard said.

A splash pad is a recreational area with a non-slip surface where people can play in fountains and water sprays.

Nine people were injured, including an 8-year-old boy who was shot in the head; his 4-year-old brother, shot in the leg; and the boys' mother, who was shot in the abdomen and leg.

Bouchard said Nash had no connection to the splashing area or any victims.

Nash's neighbors told the Detroit News that his father died two years ago and that he lived with his mother, who was traveling in the United States.

“He’s a loner. The blinds are always drawn there,” neighbor Kyleen Duchene told the newspaper.

Elsewhere in the United States, six people were shot dead in a residential neighborhood in Lathrup Village, another Detroit suburb. Seven people were shot at a party in Methuen, Massachusetts, and eight people were shot at a Juneteenth celebration in Round Rock, Texas. Two people were killed in this shooting.

Rochester Hills is about 15 miles south of Oxford, where in 2021 a 15-year-old fatally shot four high school students.