Man kills 7 of his children plus another child in shooting in Louisiana neighborhoodhttps://apnews.com/article/shreveport-mass-shooting-louisiana-15098626d4c868b2bbc8a957a6a6ead8SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana father fatally shot eight children, including seven of his own, in an attack on his family Sunday morning that stretched across two houses in a Shreveport neighborhood left shaken by one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings in recent years, police said.Two women, including the gunman’s wife who was the mother of their children, were also shot and critically wounded, according to Shreveport Police Department spokesperson Chris Bordelon. Officials said the children — who were all killed in the same house — ranged in age from 3 to 11 years old.The gunman, identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, died after a police pursuit that ended with officers firing on him, according to Bordelon. Authorities did not say what may have set off the violence but Bordelon said detectives were confident the shooting was “entirely a domestic incident.”
The attack was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years.“I just don’t know what to say, my heart is just taken aback,” Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said. “I cannot begin to imagine how such an event could occur.”Bordelon said police were familiar with Elkins, who had been arrested in a 2019 firearms case, but he said officials were not aware of any other domestic violence issues.Police said the attacks began before sunrise in a neighborhood south of downtown Shreveport when the suspect shot a woman at one home and then drove to the other location “where this heinous act was carried out.”Seven children were killed inside the second house, and one was found dead on the roof after apparently trying to escape, Bordelon said. Another child jumped off the roof and was expected to survive after being taken to a hospital.
State Rep. Tammy Phelps said some children tried to get away through the back door. “I can’t even imagine what the police officers, first responders actually dealt with when they got here today,” she said at a news conference.Family member says suspect was separating from his wifeThe victims were three boys and five girls, according to the Caddo Parish Coroner’s office.Shamar Elkins and his wife were in the middle of separating and were due in court Monday, said Crystal Brown, who is a cousin of one of the wounded women. Brown said the couple had been arguing about the separation before the shooting.“He murdered his children,” Brown said. “He shot his wife.”Elkins shared four children with his wife and three children with another woman who lived close by and who was also shot, according to Brown. All the children were together at one house, she said.Brown described all the children as “happy kids, very friendly, very sweet.”
A neighbor wakes up to a mass shootingLiza Demming, who lives two houses down from where most of the victims were shot, said her security camera captured video of the suspect running away along with the sound of two shots.“That’s pretty much all I saw, was him running out of the house and the cars leaving,” she said.Demming later went outside and saw the covered body of a child on the home’s roof.Pastor Marty T. Johnson Sr., of nearby St. Gabriel Community Baptist Church, who owns one of the homes where the shootings occurred, said a person who works for him had rented it to the family, but he never had dealings with them.“What began as a domestic dispute has ended in irreversible harm,” the parish’s district attorney’s office said in a statement.Shreveport is overwhelmed by griefIt was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. since eight people were killed in a Chicago suburb in January 2024, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.At a news conference outside the residence where one of the shootings occurred, officials appeared stunned, requesting patience and prayers from the community as they sorted through multiple crime scenes.“This is a tragic situation — maybe the worst tragic situation we’ve ever had,” said Tom Arceneaux, mayor of the city in northwestern Louisiana with about 180,000 residents. “It’s a terrible morning.”Hours after the shooting, mourners gathered outside the single-story house on 79th Street and laid flowers. One door appeared stained with blood. Later that evening at a nearby prayer vigil, Kimberlin Jackson joined other members of the community who lit candles for the victims in a parking lot.
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>tfw it’s a nigger that did it so nobody will blame whites and this shit disappears in a week or lessAnd we still talk about that one did that killed his wife and 2 kids. When white people do this shit it gets made into movies, if niggers did it forget it.
>>533492790>shoots at a car on a previous occasion>police find shell casings and a gun in his carNope, definitely no reason to take his guns.
>Pastor Marty T. Johnson Sr., of nearby St. Gabriel Community Baptist Church, who owns one of the homes where the shootings occurred, said a person who works for him had rented it to the familyGod damnit america.
>>533492903Amityville?based bloodline destoryer
>>533492762Shamarful display
>>533492762TOTALNIGGERDEATH
>>533492762>manpublic service aficionado
Don't liberals love abortion (baby murder)?This seems bipartisan, both sides can support thisBut as a born contrarian I can't support this
>>533492762Now before anyone gets too upset, here's the man in questionI'd nominate him for crime fighter of the year award
>>533492790>The attack was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years.>7 killedbut I thought mass shootings happened every day in the US? Are you telling me the media are lying to me?
>>533492762>>533493046Family annihilation used to be the white mans job...
>Louisiana fatheradd it to the list
>>533493162>Family annihilation used to be the white mans job...sure was
that nigger looks like an alien
>>533492912>How many dead children are you willing to accept to keep the 2nd amendment?>All of themBe consistent.
