Overview
- - The Shreveport Police Department, which responded just after 6 a.m. Sunday, said 10 people were shot and eight children ages 1 to 14 died.
- - Investigators linked three homes to the attack, with two on West 79th Street near Linwood and a third on nearby Harrison Street.
- - The suspect carjacked a vehicle and fled into Bossier Parish, where Shreveport officers shot and killed him after a pursuit, and no officers were hurt.
- - Police said he was the only shooter and that some child victims were his descendants in what they described as a domestic disturbance, with identities and a clear motive still pending.
- - Officials called the scene one of the city’s worst tragedies, and the Associated Press counted it as the deadliest U.S. mass shooting since 2024.