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8 children ages 1-14 killed in mass shooting incident in Louisiana
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEight children were killed in a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, multiple news outlets report, citing local police.
The children killed in the incident ranged in age from 1 to 14, Shreveport Police Department spokesperson Christopher Bordelon tells NBC.
The individual believed to be the gunman hijacked a car after the shooting and died after police fired at the vehicle during a chase, Bordelon tells NBC.
Police did not share any information about this individual, but Bordelon tells NBC that some of the slain children “were his descendants.”
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