Rochester Hills Splash Pad Reopens 2 Weeks After Shooting

ROCHESTER HILLS, MI — A Rochester Hills splash pad where nine people, including two children, were shot last month reopened Wednesday, according to city officials.

Crews tore down a fence Wednesday that was blocking access to the Brooklands Splash Pad for more than two weeks after the shooting. Officials said reopening the splash pad is the next step in the city's journey toward healing.

"Evil will not win here. Not in a place where laughter and squeals of joy abound. There will never be a moment that we do not think about what happened," the post read.

The splash pad will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week. There will be more police officers in the area as an added source of safety and security. Signage about mental health resources has also been added.

A 39-year-old Rochester Hills woman, who was the last of the nine shooting victims in the hospital, was released released from the hospital Friday, according to the sheriff's office.

The woman was shot multiple times while trying to protect her children, ages 8 and 4, from the gunman, according to the sheriff's office.

Other shooting victims who were released from the hospital include:

• 4-year-old boy
• 42-year-old man
• 31-year-old man
• 78-year-old man
• 39-year-old woman
• 37-year-old woman
• 30-year-old woman

The suspected shooter, 42-year-old Michael William Nash, of Shelby Township, fatally shot himself inside a Shelby Township mobile home shortly after the shooting, according to the sheriff's office.

The county suffered another mass shooting in 2021, when four students were killed and seven injured at Oxford High School.

Many of the sheriff's deputies who worked those two mass shootings also worked the 2023 mass shooting at Michigan State University, where three students were killed.