10 people were shot and injured in the Detroit area, police said

(Reuters) – About 10 people, including children, were shot and wounded at a suburban water park near Detroit on Saturday night, police said, calling the incident a random shooting.

The suspect was still at large on Saturday, but the police said they believe he was cornered in a nearby house. A gun was recovered at the scene, police said.

A man got out of a car in front of the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad, in Rochester Hills, Michigan, at about 17:00 (2100 GMT) and fired about 30 rounds from a 9mm semiautomatic Glock, reloading several times, said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told. press conference.

At the moment it was not clear if there were any casualties, said the police who initially reported that five people had been shot.

Rochester Hills is about 30 miles (50 km) north of Detroit. Neighboring Oxford Township, also in Oakland County, was the scene of a mass school shooting in 2021 when student Ethan Crumbley, then 15, killed four students and wounded six other students and a teacher at Oxford High. School.

“It’s a punch, obviously, for us here in Oakland County,” Bouchard said. “We’ve been through a lot of tragedies, you know. We don’t fully understand what’s going on in Oxford.”

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said of X, “I was saddened to learn of the shooting in Rochester Hills.”