At least eight children are dead following a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana that police described as a "domestic disturbance" on April 19.
The shooting spanned three homes, according to Shreveport Police Department Corporal Christopher Bordelon, who called the crime scene "extensive" at a news conference.
Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux called the shooting possibly "the worst tragic situation" the city has ever seen and asked to keep the victims' families in their prayers.
"We have hurting families," Arceneaux said. "We have hurting police officers, coroner's personnel, fire department, sheriff people, and this affects this entire community, so we all mourn with these families."
The shooting was the deadliest mass shooting since January 2024, when a gunman shot and killed eight people in a suburb of Chicago, according to the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. It is the ninth mass killing of the year and the seventh mass shooting, according to database data.
