Just days after the U.S. Supreme Court shot down a ban on rapid-fire gun bump stocks as on infringement on gun-owners' constitutional rights, at least 15 people were injured in mass shootings at a children's splash park in Michigan and a park in Texas.
"In my worst nightmare, I couldn't imagine standing up here again talking about another active shooter," Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard Bouchard said at a news conference Saturday evening nine were injured in the shooting in Rochester Hills, Michigan, just north of Detroit.
At least six were also injured Saturday at a Juneteenth festival at Settlers Park in Round Rock, Texas, north of Austin. Four adults and two children were rushed in that shooting to local hospitals, "all with potentially serious injuries," the Round Rock Police Department reported on X.
No suspect was in custody as of Sunday morning in the Texas shooting, and the motive was unknown.
The 42-year-old unidentified suspect in the Michigan shooting was found dead later in a nearby home, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Bouchard.
He drove up to Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad, stepped out of his car and opened fire at random "potentially 28 times," reloading multiple times, said the sheriff.
The shooter's motive was unknown. Other guns were found at his home.
Three of the victims in the Michigan shooting were two young brothers and their mother. The mother and her 8-year-old son, who was shot in the head, were in critical condition. The other child and the rest of the victims were in stable condition.
Bouchard called the incident a "gut punch" just three years after a high school shooting in the nearby town of Oxford when four students were killed.
"We're not even fully comprehending what happened at Oxford, and now we have another complete tragedy that we're dealing with," he said.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in astatement on X that she was "heartbroken" by the violence in her state.
