Mass shooting incident rocks a waterpark in Michigan, at least 10 injured

As many as 10 people were injured after a shooting incident rocked a city-run water park near Detroit. Police noted that the incident took place on Saturday in the suburbs of Rochester Hills while families were frolicking in the water to beat the heat.

“It sounds like we have nine, maybe 10 victims with gunshot wounds, victims of varying kinds of injuries," Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard told reporters.

While speaking to the media, the authorities also notified that a handgun and three empty magazines were recovered. The possible suspect of the incident was reportedly hiding in a home nearby.

“So, preliminarily, it looks like the suspect fired potentially 28 times, reloading multiple times,” Bouchard said. The authorities went on to urge people to avoid the area since it is still an active crime scene.

Matter under investigation 

The officials are yet to provide additional information on the matter and the conditions of the victims still remain unclear. The police noted that a man got out of the vehicle in front of the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad park at around 5:00 pm (local time)

He fired multiple shots from a 9mm semiautomatic Glock, reloading several times, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told a press conference, Reuters reported.

“It’s a gut punch, obviously, for us here in Oakland County,” Bouchard said. “We’ve gone through so many tragedies, you know. We’re not even fully comprehending what happened at Oxford.”

Meanwhile, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer also took to X, formally known as Twitter, to express discontent over the tragic incident. “I am heartbroken to learn about the shooting in Rochester Hills,” she wrote. “We are monitoring the situation as updates continue to come in, and are in touch with local officials,” the Michigan governor furthered.

Rochester Hills is located about 50 km north of Detroit. The neighbouring community Oxford Township, also in Oakland County, was the victim of a mass school shooting incident in 2021.

A student named Ethan Crumbley, then 15, killed four students and wounded six other students and a teacher at Oxford High School.

With inputs from Reuters.