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A gunman killed eight children, ages 1 to 14, in a domestic mass shooting across multiple residences in Shreveport, Louisiana, early on April 19, 2026, before being fatally shot by police during a vehicle pursuit into Bossier City. The incident — the deadliest domestic mass shooting involving exclusively child victims in modern U.S. history — occurred in a state with the second-highest child firearm death rate in the country and where the legislature rejected a safe gun storage bill just days earlier.