Shreveport Mass Shooting Kills 8 Children as Police Shoot Suspect Dead

Overview

• The Shreveport attack, reported Sunday, left eight children dead and two women seriously wounded, and one child survived with a minor injury.
• A wounded woman alerted a neighbor to call 911, and officers then found victims in two homes while treating a third site as part of the case.
• Police identified the suspect as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, who fled in a stolen vehicle and was shot by officers after he got out holding a gun.
• Seven of the children were Elkins’s kids and the eighth was their cousin, and the coroner said the victims were three to eleven years old.
• Records show Elkins pleaded guilty in a 2019 gun case, and relatives told the New York Times he had recently voiced suicidal thoughts.