Louisiana shooter Shamar Elkins’ chilling remarks before killing his 7 kids and their cousin

“I can’t even imagine what the police officers, first responders actually dealt with when they got here today,” she said at a news conference.

Crystal Brown, a cousin of one of the wounded women, told AP that Shamar Elkins and his wife were in the middle of separating and were due in court Monday.

“He murdered his children. He shot his wife,” she said, describing all the children as “happy kids, very friendly, very sweet.”

Elkins was later killed by police during an attempted carjacking. According to a database maintained by AP in partnership with Northeastern University, the Shreveport killings were the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. since eight people were killed in a Chicago suburb in January 2024.