{"id":72140,"date":"2026-04-19T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/mass-shooting-rampage-in-louisiana-leaves-eight-children-dead-and-others-wounded\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:56:05","slug":"mass-shooting-rampage-in-louisiana-leaves-eight-children-dead-and-others-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/mass-shooting-rampage-in-louisiana-leaves-eight-children-dead-and-others-wounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass shooting rampage in Louisiana leaves eight children dead and others wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect was fatally shot, according to Shreveport police, who say victims included children ranging from 18 months to 14 years<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least eight people are dead and others are wounded after a mass murder reported in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/louisiana\">Louisiana<\/a> city of Shreveport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbs.com\/news\/shreveport-police-investigating-mass-shooting-in-cedar-grove-with-multiple-fatalities\/article_825e67e7-c0e2-44d1-8cf6-8af72e186002.html\">according to local police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that among the victims were children ranging in age from 18 months to 14 years. Two other women were reportedly shot in the head but survived \u2013 and a third person, described as a young boy, was injured while jumping from a roof.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/19\/shreveport-louisiana-mass-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect was fatally shot, according to Shreveport police, who say victims included children ranging from 18 months to 14 years Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox At least eight people are dead and others are wounded after a mass murder reported in the Louisiana city of &#8230; <a title=\"Mass shooting rampage in Louisiana leaves eight children dead and others wounded\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/mass-shooting-rampage-in-louisiana-leaves-eight-children-dead-and-others-wounded\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mass shooting rampage in Louisiana leaves eight children dead and others wounded\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}