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, two people were killed and least 15 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 after nine were injured in the shooting in Rochester Hills, Michigan, just north of Detroit.
Two people were killed and at least six were injured Saturday at a Juneteenth festival in Round Rock, Texas, north of Austin.
A fight erupted between two groups during the event at Old Settlers Park, and "someone produced a gun and began to fire," Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks said at a news conference.
"Multiple victims were hit" in the large crowd on the scene, the chief added.
Six people, including two children, "all with potentially serious injuries," were rushed to local trauma centers, police said.
"It breaks your heart for a family that was coming out to enjoy their evening and now their life is forever changed as a result of somebody who could care less about somebody else's life," Banks said.
No suspect was in custody as of Sunday morning in the Texas shooting, and the motive was unknown.
Police identified the shooter in Michigan as 42-year-old Michael William Nash, who was found dead later in a nearby home, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Bouchard.
No motive has been determined in what police called a "random" attack. Nash, who has no criminal history, has no known connection to any of the victims. Other guns wer found in his home.
Nash 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.
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.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement on X that she was "heartbroken" by the violence in her state.
