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AP News - By Sophie Bates, Lekan Oyekanmi, Gerald Herbert, John Seewer - 4/19/2026, 3:59 PM

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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. Those... more