Overview
- Mourners filled Summer Grove Baptist Church on Saturday for a public funeral, with eight white caskets displayed beside photos of the children.
- The victims were seven siblings and a cousin ages 3 to 11 who were shot on April 19 in what police described as a domestic attack by their father, Shamar Elkins.
- Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ordered flags at state buildings lowered through May 17 to honor the children.
- Federal prosecutors have charged Charles Ford and Michael Mayence on firearms counts in a probe of how Elkins obtained an assault-style rifle despite a 2019 felony conviction.
- State police are reviewing the pursuit in which Elkins died, and investigators have not said whether officers’ gunfire or a self-inflicted shot caused his death.