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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-172c358be16e734bbb26badd7b969789 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#250303"><strong>11 people shot Sunday morning, leaving nine dead including the shooter after a 31-year-old man went on a shooting rampage in Shreveport, Louisiana, following a domestic dispute </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-da99e16b09f08887d5d2d3030e4b8944 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#250303"><strong>Fatalities, eight of them juveniles juveniles aged 18 months to 14 years, include &#8216;descendants&#8217; of the shooter, police reported after responding to a call of domestic disturbance just after 6am on Sunday morning </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-005608cbb84b11462ce0f3c0ddc72ac0 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#250303"><strong>Two adult women survived after being shot in the head, leaving one with life threatening injuries</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-0b67c333abbfe6c3bdac7b179f7eaa2e wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#250303"><strong>Shooting happened at three different locations, but the children were massacred in one location, seven inside the home while the eight child appeared to have tried escaping by jumping off a roof on the back of the house</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-a7c6d3d3cbbf8e5612df3db2bfe3a039 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#250303"><strong>The <strong>male suspect, identified as Shamar Elkins,</strong></strong> <strong>then carjacked a vehicle and led officers on a high-speed chase, traveling a quarter-mile away to exchange gunfire at two different locations </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-fe9b188e4822af7c28f0811c6141529a wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#250303"><strong>Investigators believe Elkins, had a relationship with one or both of the women</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1c90abd8580284ba0407456e517792ec wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#250303"><strong>Elkins was shot and killed by police at the third location in Bossier City </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Police tape outside of a house that was one of three homes where the mass shooting unfolded in Shreveport, Louisiana that left eight children dead and two adult women with gunshot injuries to the head on Sunday April 19</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A case of domestic disturbance in Shreveport, Louisiana early on Sunday morning morphed into a massacre of juveniles when a man opened fire and killed eight young children. <br>Officers from Shreveport Police Department responding to a call of a domestic disturbance just after 6am report at least 10 people shot in a widespread crime scene involving two residences and a third location. <br>Eight juvenile victims were killed, the youngest victim was 18 months old, and the eldest was 14 years old, some of them &#8216;descendants&#8217; of the shooter, police said.<br>Two adult women survived the bloody incident after being shot in the head at the two residences. One of the women suffered life-threatening injuries. Another teenage boy at the home when the gunfire erupted was injured jumping from the roof in his bid to escape the shooting<br>While police have not released the names of the victims investigators believe the male suspect identified as Shamar Elkins, had a relationship with one or both of the women.<br>Elkins, 31, has a prior criminal conviction in Caddo District Court having been was arrested in March 2019 on a charge of illegal use of weapons and carrying a firearm on school property.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The alleged shooter Shamar Elkins, [photo], investigators believe, had a relationship with one or both of the women who survived after both were shot in the head and some of the minors he killed are his children. Elkins was shot dead in Bossier City after a police chase.</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Officers of Shreveport PD converged on the scene after a shooter identified as Shamar Elkins, went on a shooting rampage spanning three homes in Shreveport, Louisiana, <strong>early Sunday morning</strong>, killing eight young children, before he was &#8216;neutralized&#8217;</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The horrific ordeal unfolded across three different locations. The first, 300 block of West 79th Street near Linwood Avenue, was where the children were massacred in a home just a stone&#8217;s throw away from a Baptist church. <br><a href="https://www.ktbs.com/news/shreveport-police-investigating-mass-shooting-in-cedar-grove-with-multiple-fatalities/article_825e67e7-c0e2-44d1-8cf6-8af72e186002.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="">KTBS</a> reported that seven children were found dead in one house. The eighth appeared to have tried to escape off the roof on the back of the house.<br>After unleashing mayhem at the first crime scene, Elkins jacked a vehicle at that location and led officers on a high-speed chase, traveling a quarter-mile away to Harrison Street, between Wallace Avenue and Bernstein Avenue.<br>He then drove to the third location, in Bossier Parish, on Brompton Lane near Long Acre Drive where he was shot and killed by police.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The shooting happened at three homes, beginning with the home on the 300 block of West 79th Street near Linwood Avenue, was where children <strong>18 months to 14 years,</strong> were massacred. Two adult women survived and a young boy was injured after jumping off a roof</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The crime scene was described as &#8216;rather extensive&#8217; by police spokesperson Christopher Bordelon while confirming that Elkins was &#8216;the only individual that fired gunshots at these locations.&#8217;<br>He said some of the children in the home &#8216;were his descendants,&#8217; but did not provide further details.<br>Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux solemnly addressed the shaken community after the shooting. <br>&#8216;We have a hurting community, we have hurting families, we have hurting police officers, coroners personnel, fire departments, sheriff&#8217;s people,&#8217; Arceneaux said. <br>&#8216;This affects the entire community. So we all mourn with these families. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>According to Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux, [photo], the alleged shooter, Shamar Elkins, had a relationship with one or both of the adult women he shot in the head</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8216;It&#8217;s a Sunday morning. I ask all of you who are listening, who might be able to pray at your services this morning, not just for this family, for all the victims.&#8217;<br>The mayor added that the incident is &#8216;maybe the worst tragic situation we&#8217;ve ever had in Shreveport.&#8217;<br>&#8216;So, right now we&#8217;re going to process the information and it&#8217;s in very good hands,&#8217; he continued. <br>The investigation remains ongoing. <br><br></p>

