Louisiana father fatally shoots 7 of his children plus another child in attack at house, police say
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children, including seven of his own, and shot two other people Sunday in an early morning attack of domestic violence carried out across two houses, authorities said, shaking a Shreveport neighborhood in one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings in more than two years. The victims ranged in age from 1 to about 12 years old and one of the adults wounded was the mother of the suspect's children, said Shreveport Police Department a...
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