Police have identified Shamar Elkins as the Louisiana man who fatally shot eight children on Sunday (April 19). Additional details from the case revealed that seven of the kids were his, and that the attack on his family stretched across two houses in a Shreveport, Louisiana neighborhood. The shooting was the deadliest in the U.S. since January 2024, when eight people were killed in a Chicago suburb, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.