{"id":72179,"date":"2026-04-20T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/louisiana-authorities-identify-eight-children-killed-in-domestic-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:55:00","slug":"louisiana-authorities-identify-eight-children-killed-in-domestic-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/louisiana-authorities-identify-eight-children-killed-in-domestic-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana authorities identify eight children killed in \u2018domestic incident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunman, identified as Shamar Elkins, fatally shot the children \u2013 including seven of his own \u2013 at two separate houses<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/19\/shreveport-louisiana-mass-shooting\">Mass shooting rampage in Louisiana leaves eight children dead and others wounded<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\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 newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Louisiana authorities have identified eight children \u2013 aged three to 11 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/19\/shreveport-louisiana-mass-shooting\">who were killed<\/a> Sunday during what police described as a \u201cviolent domestic incident\u201d in Shreveport that marked the deadliest US mass shooting in more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Caddo parish coroner\u2019s office identified the children as Jayla Elkins, 3; Shayla Elkins, 5; Kayla Pugh, 6; Layla Pugh, 7; Markaydon Pugh, 10; Sariahh Snow, 11; Khedarrion Snow, 6; and Braylon Snow, 5.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/20\/shreveport-louisiana-mass-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunman, identified as Shamar Elkins, fatally shot the children \u2013 including seven of his own \u2013 at two separate houses Mass shooting rampage in Louisiana leaves eight children dead and others wounded Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Louisiana authorities have identified eight children \u2013 aged three to 11 \u2013 who were &#8230; <a title=\"Louisiana authorities identify eight children killed in \u2018domestic incident\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/louisiana-authorities-identify-eight-children-killed-in-domestic-incident\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Louisiana authorities identify eight children killed in \u2018domestic incident\u2019\">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-72179","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\/72179","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=72179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}