Man Kills 8 Children And His Wife in Mass Shooting in Louisiana
Police tape runs across 79th Street following the incident in Shreveport, La., April 19.
Photographer: Gerald Herbert/AP Photo
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A stunned Louisiana city struggled to come to grips Monday with the massacre of eight children carried out by a father who was separating from his wife and used an assault-style weapon despite a 2019 felony firearms conviction.
The violence reverberated across Shreveport a day after the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in two years. Schools brought in counselors for the victims' young classmates and community leaders called for a city-wide reckoning on stopping domestic violence.