Authorities identify 8 young children shot and killed by a Louisiana father | CNN

Freddie Montgomery looked across the street as he walked home from visiting a neighbor and saw Shamar Elkins. The 31-year-old was sitting on the front porch of his Shreveport, Louisiana, home Saturday afternoon, Montgomery told CNN. The two men waved at each other as children played in the yard. When Montgomery woke up and opened the curtains the next morning, he saw law enforcement entering the house across the street. And the police presence continued to grow. He asked an officer if the scene was bad. The police said yes. “Are we talking fatalities?” Montgomery asked. Multiple, the officer said. “Loss of children?” Montgomery asked. Multiple, the officer said. Elkins fatally shot eight children — seven of them his own — early Sunday morning, Shreveport police said, in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in more than two years. He also shot Shaneiqua Pugh, his wife, and Christina Snow, the mother of three of his children. A third woman — his wife’s sister — and a 12-year-old girl jumped off the roof trying to escape. (Police previously said it was a 13-year-old boy who jumped off the roof trying to escape.) “This is a tragic situation, maybe the worst tragic