Mass shooting rampage in Louisiana leaves eight children dead and others wounded
The Guardian • • general
Key Points:
- At least eight people, including children aged 18 months to 14 years, were killed and several others wounded in a mass murder in Shreveport, Louisiana, with the suspected killer shot dead by police after a carjacking.
- The violence occurred early Sunday morning across four nearby locations in the Cedar Grove neighborhood, with authorities suggesting a domestic motive but withholding further details pending investigation.
- Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux described the incident as one of the worst tragedies in recent memory for the city of approximately 187,000 residents.
- The mass murder adds to a troubling trend in the US, with at least six mass murders reported in 2026 so far, as defined by the Gun Violence Archive.
- Separately, a shooting near the University of Iowa injured five people, including three students, with no arrests announced; this incident is part of over 110 mass shootings in the US this year according to the same archive.
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