Rochester Hills — Nine people were shot at a splash pad in Rochester Hills around 5:11 p.m. Saturday after a "random" gunman got out of a vehicle and unloaded 28 gunshots from a handgun at the streetside park, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.
Sheriff's deputies later found the 42-year-old male suspect dead at a home in Shelby Township after police breached the home with a drone, Bouchard said.
The alleged shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the sheriff said.
The gunman drove up to the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad along Auburn Road in Rochester Hills, got out of a vehicle, opened fire with a 9mm Glock semi-automatic handgun, reloaded, fired and then reloaded a second time, leaving three bullet magazines at the scene, Bouchard said.
One of shooting victims was an eight-year-old boy who was shot in the head and is in critical condition. That boy's 4-year-old brother also was shot in the thigh, but is considered stable, Bouchard said.
And a 39-year-old woman sustained gunshot wounds to her abdomen and legs and also is in critical condition, Bouchard said.
"That's all from one family," Bouchard said of two boys and woman.