In April 2026, Shamar Elkins shot and killed eight children — seven of whom were his own Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

Eight children, ranging in age from just 3 to 11 years old, were killed early Sunday morning in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a shocking act of violence that marks the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in ...

Shamar Elkins, an Army veteran, is the suspect of a shooting in Louisiana that resulted in the deaths of eight children, including his own.

Shamar Elkins shot eight children, aged 3 to 11, in a tragic domestic violence incident in Louisiana before being killed by police.

A Shreveport man in his 50s has been arrested for allegedly helping the suspect in the Cedar Grove mass shooting obtain a gun.

Shamar Elkins has been named as the suspect in a devastating mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, resulting in eight children dead and many others injured.

Authorities in Louisiana identified the man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, that killed eight children, including seven of his own. Shreveport officials say Shamar ...

Louisiana gunman Shamar Elkins, 31, killed eight children - seven his own - across three Louisiana homes before being shot dead by police in the nation's deadliest mass shooting since 2024.

Shamar Elkins, a 31-year-old from Louisiana, killed his seven children and another child, revealing a history of depression ...

Police identify Shamar Elkins as the sole mass shooting suspect in Louisiana's 'domestic' incident. In what is being described as a domestic violence incident and one of the United States’ deadliest ...

The maniac who slaughtered seven of his children and one of their cousins in Louisiana on Sunday was set to do battle with his estranged wife in divorce court Monday. Stress-riddled Army vet Shamar ...