Girl Shot Outside Sportsplex Dies: UPDATED

This story has been updated.

A 7-year-old child has died after she and her mother were shot by a family friend outside the Taylor Sportsplex Thursday night.

The child, Emma Watson Nowling, and her mother, Sharon Elizabeth Watson, 37, were shot by Timothy Nelson Obeshaw, 57, who then killed himself, Taylor police said at a Friday news conference.

Watson remains in serious condition at a local hospital, the Detroit Free Press reports.

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Obeshaw had lived with Watson and her boyfriend in Belleville before recently moving to a home in Taylor, police said. He was described as mentally unstable.

Soccer practice had ended about 8 p.m. when Obeshaw shot Emma and her mother as they prepared to leave in their vehicle, police said. He shot Emma first, then her mother, police said.

A motive for the shooting remains unclear, according to police.

“Police found evidence that Obeshaw believed someone was trying to perform mind control on him,” according to a news release from the Taylor Police Department.

Police said Obeshaw registered a handgun in Belleville in September.

Patch’s earlier report.

A man shot and wounded a woman and her 7-year-old daughter in parking lot of a Downriver sports complex about 8 p.m. Thursday before killing himself, police said.

The situation unfolded at the Taylor Sportsplex on Telegraph Road between North Line and Eureka roads in Taylor, where the woman had taken her daughter to a soccer practice, WWJ reports.

The motive and relationship between the man and the two victims is unknown.

The child’s mother was taken to Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn for treatment, but the child was airlifted to Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, according to the report.

WDIV-TV said both were in critical condition Friday morning.

The man was declared dead at the scene.