Shreveport Shooting: Eight Kids Killed, Suspect Dead

0:00Police in Shreveport, Louisiana are digging for a motive in the deadly shooting of eight children, all age 3 to 11 that happened Sunday. Morning. The suspect, Shamar Elkins, father of seven of the victims, allegedly carried out the attack with an assault-style pistol over 68 minutes, killing the kids who were siblings and one cousin. Elkins, a former Louisiana Army National Guard member, also wounded two women, including the mother of seven kids and a teenage boy who jumped from a roof to escape. After the initial shots at a home on West 79th Street, he hit another spot on Harrison Street, carjacked a vehicle, and led cops on a chase into Bacier City. Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith called April 19th one of the worst days in city history during a news conference. He laid out the timeline from frantic 911 calls around 5.55 a.m. to the chaos unfolding across neighborhoods and highways. Investigators linked domestic violence as the likely trigger, probing five crime scenes total. They still don't know exactly what happened to three children.

1:05Elkins took from the second house and whether he died from police gunfire or took his own life at 6.43 a.m. As families grieve and the wounded recover in hospitals, police vow to uncover every detail behind this tragedy, leaving our community searching for answers in the pain. That's the story for today. California News Today, driven by AI.