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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cIn my eight years of being on the city Council and my 24 years of being a firefighter, this has to be the worst event that I\u2019ve seen.\u201d 5:59 a.m., dispatch was advised that approximately nine individuals resided at the location. The caller further stated that the suspect, identified as Shamar Elkins, had shot everyone inside the home. 6:07 a.m., a second call was received regarding a shooting in the 500 block of Harrison Street. The caller stated that her boyfriend had shot her, taking her three children and fled the scene. At 6:10 a.m., dispatch linked the Harrison Street shooting with the shooting on West 79th Street and that they all were related.\u201d<\/p>\n On Monday, city and state officials gave updates on a mass shooting in Shreveport, La., in which a gunman opened fire on his family, killing eight children and injuring two others.<\/span><\/p>\n By Jamie Leventhal<\/p>\n April 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: New Details in the Mass Shooting That Left 8 Dead in Louisiana transcript Back transcript New Details in the Mass Shooting That Left 8 Dead in Louisiana On Monday, city and state officials gave updates on a mass shooting in Shreveport, La., in which a gunman opened fire on his family, killing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1596,1729,1199,848,1472,4527],"class_list":{"0":"post-48607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-dead","9":"tag-details","10":"tag-left","11":"tag-louisiana","12":"tag-mass","13":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}New Details in the Mass Shooting That Left 8 Dead in Louisiana<\/h2>\n
On Monday, city and state officials gave updates on a mass shooting in Shreveport, La., in which a gunman opened fire on his family, killing eight children and injuring two others.<\/h4>\n