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5 things to know about the Shreveport mass shooting that left 8 children dead
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (508+ words) Police tape runs across 79th Street in Shreveport, La. , Sunday, April 19, 2026, as police work at the scene of a mass shooting. Shreveport is devastated after a Sunday morning mass shooting in the Cedar Grove neighborhood left eight children, ages 3 to 11, and…...
Families mourn at Shreveport mass shooting scene, suspect accused of "executing" children
18+ hour, 15+ min ago (16+ words) The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate...
Shreveport community holds vigil after mass shooting
7+ hour, 15+ min ago (47+ words) The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate Video by Jill Pickett and Will Nickel See Shreveport community remember mass shooting victims: 'This should have never happened' In the parking lot outside of Tha Trap in Shreveport people gathered Sunday evening for a pr...
'Heartbreaking tragedy': Shreveport City Council reacts to mass shooting in Cedar Grove
19+ hour, 17+ min ago (520+ words) Police tape runs across 79th Street in Shreveport, La. , Sunday, April 19, 2026, as police work at the scene of a mass shooting. Shreveport's leaders are reacting to the tragic murder of eight children in Cedar Grove Sunday morning." Eight children between the…...
Coroner identifies 8 children shot in mass shooting in Shreveport on Sunday
13+ hour, 7+ min ago (215+ words) People gather at the corner of Linwood Avenue and 79th Street near where a mass shooting took place in Shreveport, La. , Sunday, April 19, 2026. Seven juvenile siblings and a cousin shot and killed in a mass shooting in the Cedar Grove neighborhood…...
Who is Shamar Elkins, the perpetrator in the Sunday mass shooting of 8 children in Shreveport?
12+ hour, 31+ min ago (210+ words) An SUV sits in the driveway of a house on Harrison Street near Bernstein Avenue in Shreveport, La. , connected to a mass shooting on Sunday, April 19, 2026. Who is Shamar Elkins, the perpetrator who police say shot and killed 8 children and…...
See Shreveport community remember mass shooting victims: 'This should have never happened'
11+ hour, 29+ min ago (75+ words) The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate In the parking lot outside of Tha Trap in Shreveport people gathered Sunday evening for a prayer vigil in response to a mass shooting that occurred earlier in the day. People gather for a prayer vigil…...
Some victims killed in Shreveport mass shooting were suspect's own children, police confirm
18+ hour, 58+ min ago (335+ words) The Shreveport Police Department Mobile Command Center sits off of 79th Street in Shreveport, La. , near where a mass shooting occurred Sunday, April 19, 2026. Police tape runs across 79th Street in Shreveport, La. , Sunday, April 19, 2026, as police work at the scene of a…...
Police identify suspect in Shreveport mass shooting that left 8 children dead
14+ hour, 11+ min ago (373+ words) Police tape runs across 79th Street in Shreveport, La. , Sunday, April 19, 2026, as police work at the scene of a mass shooting. Shreveport law enforcement officials have identified the man who is accused of killing eight children, including some of his own,…...
8 children, ages 1 to 14, are dead in Sunday mass shooting in Shreveport, community mourns
15+ hour, 47+ min ago (755+ words) A house on 79th Street in Shreveport, La. , that is one of the locations tied to a mass shooting Sunday, April 19, 2026. Shreveport Police responded to four connected crime scenes early Sunday" including one in Bossier City" that resulted in the discovery…...