Mass Shooter Shoots Up Random People At Detroit Water Park, 9 Shot, 1 Little Boy In The Head In Critical Condition, Shooter Killed Himself During Standoff

FOX 2 (WJBK) - After a five-plus hour standoff, the suspected shooter in the random assault at a Rochester Hills Splash Pad was found dead by suicide late Saturday night.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard has reason to believe that the Brooklands Splashpad at Spencer Park might not have been his only target and that the tragedy in which nine people were wounded including two small children ages 4 and 8, could have been worse.

The handgun the 42-year-old Shelby Township man used was a registered 9mm pistol, recovered at the scene with three empty magazines which would have held nearly 30 rounds of ammunition.

Thanks to witness' car descriptions and an investigation into the weapon, deputies, SWAT teams and negotiators were able to rush to the man's residence at the Dequindre Estates mobile home park within 45 minutes of the shooting and put forth containment efforts.

"There were some evidence related to the firearm and some other things that they did some quick research and data examination and the weapons and they gave us a potential address," Bouchard said.

Inside, he had an AR-style rifle on the kitchen table and was lying dead next to a third gun, a pistol, that he used on himself.

"The reason that containment is critically important and why potentially more lives were saved as we don't know what the next chapter was going to be," Bouchard said. "When the drone flew into the home, this was on the kitchen table. So he didn't have just a handgun in that particular endeavor - he had obviously, what looks to be an AR platform rifle, But what I do know is that individual was in that home with (possibly more weapons).

"Because we had quick containment on him, that if he had planned to do anything else, it wouldn't surprise me. Because having that on the kitchen table isn't an everyday activity. "

The self-inflicted gunshot wound happened at some point during the standoff because deputies, although they did not have back-and-forth communication after arriving outside the home, had seen and or heard him inside.

Eight of the nine victims were described as:

An 8-year-old with a gunshot wound to the head in critical condition

A 4-year-old with a wound to his thigh and is in stable condition

A 39-year-old woman with wounds to the abdomen is in critical

A 39-year-old woman with wounds to the back and arm, who is in stable condition

A 30-year-old man with a right leg wound who is in stable

A 78-year-old man with an abdomen wound who is in stable

A 37-year-old woman with a hand-wound in stable

A 40-year-old man with a right knee wound who is in stable