Louisiana community is struggling to understand after man killed 8 children ^49.4%

AP News - By Sophie Bates, Lekan Oyekanmi, Jack Brook - 4/20/2026, 5:58 AM

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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A stunned Louisiana city struggled to come to grips Monday with the massacre of eight children carried out by a father who was separating from his wife and used an assault-style weapon despite a 2019 felony firearms conviction. The violence reverberated across Shreveport a day after the nation’s deadliest mass... more