Around 10 people, including children, were wounded by bullets at a municipal water amusement park in Michigan yesterday Saturday around 17:00 (local time; midnight Greek time), the police said, speaking of an attack “indiscriminately”.

A man got out of a car in front of the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in Rochester Hills and fired about 30 times with a Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun, changing magazines repeatedly, according to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bussard.

It is not yet known if any of the victims succumbed, according to police, and the suspect remained at large overnight.

A short time later the police located him at a nearby property and surrounded him.

According to information from the local media, the attacker committed suicide inside the house that had been tampered with with another weapon as the weapon used in the attack was found in the water park.

The community of Rochester Hills is about fifty kilometers north of Detroit. Neighboring Oxford Township, also in Oakland County, was the scene of a 2021 school shooting by a student, then 15, killing four of his classmates and injuring six others and a faculty member.

“It’s a punch in the gut obviously for us here in Oakland County,” Mr. Bouchard said. “We have experienced many tragedies (…) We still haven’t fully digested what happened in Oxford,” the sheriff added.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said via X that she was “appalled” by the mass shooting — attacks with firearms that have four or more victims, in US law enforcement parlance — in Rochester Hills.

The US, a country with more guns in circulation than people (about 400 million), pays an extremely heavy price for their proliferation and characteristic ease of acquisition, with tens of thousands of deaths each year, and efforts to impose tighter controls usually fail to a wall given the influence of the gun lobby in Congress.