The suspect of the tragic shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, on Sunday has been identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins. Elkins, a former US Army soldier, shot eight children dead and injured two women, with one of them in critical condition.
Elkins has not yet been identified by authorities. The Daily Mail confirmed the identity citing former Caddo Parish Constable Patrick Young. Since the identification, the social media profile of Shamar Elkins has gone viral. His posts with his children, whom he murdered, have been sending chills down the spines of those following the case.
Hours before the mass shooting on Sunday morning, on Saturday evening, Elkins posted on Facebook photos of his visit to a burger joint with this eldest daughter. “Lol!!!! Took my oldest on a lil 1 on 1 date had to catch her down bad ugh ugh,” he captioned the photo.
Here’s the post:
The tragedy unfolded early on Sunday morning and left at least eight dead. Some of the children killed were identified as “descendants” of Elkins. Two of the women who were shot in the head by Elkins were also related to him, though Shreveport police have not revealed the exact nature of the relationship.
The Shreveport Police Department has not identified the deceased children, saying that the formal identification of the eight corpses is still pending.
As of now, it is unclear what prompted the shooting as the Shreveport Police Department continue their investigation.
The mass shooting took place on the 300 block of West 79th Street near Linwood Avenue, where the eight children and the two women were shot. He then jacked a car and fled the location with deputies chasing him.
He first went to Harrison Street, between Wallace Avenue and Bernstein Avenue, and then to on Brompton Lane near Long Acre Drive, where he was shot dead by officers, the Shreveport Police Department said.
This story is being updated.
