SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) – Eight children are dead after a shooting on W. 79th Street, ages ranging from 18 months to 15 years old.
Police say it started as a domestic dispute, and the suspect tried to run by carjacking and going to Bossier.
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April 19 (UPI) — Eight children were killed, and two more injured, in a mass shooting in Louisiana on Sunday morning that police said started as a domestic dispute.
The two survivors are both adult women, with one thought to have been in a relationship with the shooter, who was killed by police after stealing a car and leading them on a short chase, KSLA and NBC News reported.
Officials said they are still investigating the crime scenes to figure out what actually happened, as one of the two women has life-threatening injuries resulting from what is believed to have been a shot in the head.
Some of the children that were killed, who ranged in age from 1 year to 14 years, were related to the alleged shooter, police said.