Random shooting in Michigan water park injures nine
Including two children

WORLD  16 June 2024 - 13:55

At least nine people, including two young children, have been wounded after being shot at a city-run water park in Michigan in the United States, officials said.

An attacker opened fire at a splash pad in a Detroit suburb on June 15 where families gathered to escape the summer heat, Al Jazeera reports.

Police, who determined the incident as random gunfire, tracked a suspect to a home, where the man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

An eight-year-old boy is believed to be in critical condition after he was shot in the head.

The boy’s mother is also in critical condition after being wounded in the abdomen and leg, and his four-year-old brother is in stable condition with a leg wound.

The other six victims, all 30 years or older, were in stable condition. They included a woman and her husband and a 78-year-old man.

A man got out of a vehicle in front of Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad park, in Rochester Hills, Michigan, at about 5pm (21:00 GMT) and fired about 30 shots from a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, reloading several times, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told a news conference.

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