During the afternoon of last Sunday, April 19, eight minors between one and fourteen years died in a mass shooting that took place in the city of Shreveportlocated in the southern state of Louisianaso reports from the Police of that town described the unfortunate event as an alleged “violent domestic altercation.”
According to what was stated by the American newspaper The New York Times, A total of ten people (eight children) were shot at least once during the incident in the Shreveport, Louisiana, metropolis before the suspect fled. drain and was later killed by police officers during the chase.
Shreveport Police Department Spokesperson Chris Bordelon, publicly announced that the main suspect had stolen a car when leaving the scene and was then followed by the authorities. However, despite the attacks of the alleged criminal, none of the agents were wounded by bringing it down.
“This is an extensive scene like none most have seen never“added Bordelon, who mentioned that authorities were still gathering as many details as possible about the crime scene, which spanned three locations, as the man killed eight children in several shootings in different houses of the city of Shreveport.
They identify the perpetrator of the shooting
“We believe that he is the only individual who fired shots,” said Shreveport Police Department spokesman Chris Bordelon, referring to the alleged responsiblebecause the only two survivors of the Louisiana shooting are two adult women, one of them with very serious injuries that endanger your life.
Bordelon specified that the crime scene is “extensive” and encompasses more than three homes in the neighborhood of Cedar Grove from Shreveport, so he warned that the investigation was in its initial stage and that all the information was preliminary, given that on Sunday he did not offer more details about the identities of the victims or the suspect.
However, during the morning of this Monday, April 20, Louisiana authorities managed to identify the author of the shooting that ended the lives of eight minors in the city of Shreveport, in an event that they described as “massacre“, since several of the victims were direct descendants of the main suspect, who has already been killed.
“This is a situation tragicperhaps the most tragic situation we have ever experienced. It’s been a few days terrible“he lamented Tom Arceneaux, mayor of this city in northwest Louisiana, with 90,000 inhabitants, where the attacker, who was shot dead by the Police after fleeing the scene in a stolen car, is called Shamar Elkins.
Shamar Elkins
According to Mayor Arceneaux’s communications director, Leigh Anne Evensky the aggressor was Shamar Elkins and died after a police chase that ended in a parish from around Shreveport. “Several of the minors were descendants of this attacker,” the spokesperson added during a press conference.
In turn, according to the president of the House of Representatives, Michael Johnsonborn in Shreveport, the perpetrator of the deadliest shooting in the United States since December 2024 was the father of seven of the victimswho were between one and fourteen years old, so this massacre It started as a domestic problem. h