WORLD.- Eight children died y ten people were injured in a shooting multiple occurred this Sunday morning in Shreveport, Lousianain a fact that the US authorities attribute to a case of domestic violence.
One of the country’s worst massacres in more than two years shook a Shreveport neighborhood.
Las fatalities were between 1 and 12 years oldand one of the injured adults was the mother of some of the suspect’s children, said Chris Bordelon, spokesman for the Shreveport Police Department.
The researchers They did not say what could have triggered the violence. Bordelon said there was still much to investigate, but that detectives were certain this was “entirely a domestic incident.”
“This is a huge scene, unlike anything most of us have ever seen,” Bordelon said.
The police said that The attacks began before dawn in a south Shreveport neighborhood, when the suspect shot a woman in a home and then led to the other location “where this heinous act took place.”
Seven children were killed in the second home, and one more was found dead on the roof after apparently trying to escape.
State Representative Tammy Phelps said that some children tried to escape through the back door. “I can’t even imagine what the police officers, the first responders, really had to deal with when they arrived at the scene,” he said at a news conference.
They identify the perpetrator of the Louisiana shooting
He suspect died after a chase with officers, said Chris Bordelon, spokesman for the Shreveport Police Department. After he stole a car at gunpoint.
It is about Shamar Elkinsaccording to the communications director of the mayor of Shreveport
Police arrested Elkins in 2019 in a firearms case.
Shamar Elkins and his wife They were in the middle of a separation and were due in court Monday, said Crystal Brown, who is a cousin of one of the injured women. He added that the couple had been arguing about separation before the shooting.
“He murdered his childrenBrown said. “He shot his wife.”
Elkins had four children with his wife and three children with another woman who lived nearby and who was also injured, according to Brown. All the children were together in a house, he indicated.
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