{"id":79102,"date":"2026-04-19T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/eight-children-killed-in-mass-shooting-in-louisiana-us-media-reports-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:41:00","slug":"eight-children-killed-in-mass-shooting-in-louisiana-us-media-reports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/eight-children-killed-in-mass-shooting-in-louisiana-us-media-reports-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight children killed in mass shooting in Louisiana, US media reports news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published on 19 April 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">19 April 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Authorities say eight children have been killed in a domestic disturbance in Louisiana, multiple news outlets report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to Police Chief Wayne Smith, the shooting occurred around 6 a.m. Sunday in Shreveport, news agency AP reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The victims ranged in age from one to about 14 years old. He said that a total of 10 people were shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Officials said they were still gathering details about the crime scene, which spanned three locations. The suspected shooter was shot during a vehicle pursuit by police, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some of the children who were shot were related to the suspect, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a broader scene than most of us have ever seen,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Louisiana State Police say their detectives have been asked by Shreveport police to investigate. In a statement, state police say no officers were harmed in a shooting that followed a police chase in Bossier City early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">State police are asking anyone with pictures, video or information to share it with state police detectives.<\/p>\n<p><i>more to come\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 19 April 202619 April 2026 Authorities say eight children have been killed in a domestic disturbance in Louisiana, multiple news outlets report. According to Police Chief Wayne Smith, the shooting occurred around 6 a.m. Sunday in Shreveport, news agency AP reports. The victims ranged in age from one to about 14 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[904,709,15140,2203,3179,615,1739,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-79102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-killed","10":"tag-louisiana","11":"tag-mass","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-reports","15":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79105,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79102\/revisions\/79105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}