April 19, 2026
BREAKING: 8 Children Dead in Louisiana Mass Shooting
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RSS Feed An investigation is underway following a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana early this morning that left 8 children dead. Details are still emerging, but right now police say a total of 10 people were shot, and the 8 who were killed ranged in age between 1 and 14-years-old. Authorities were able to chase down the suspect, where they ultimately shot and killed him. Shreveport’s mayor calling this the worst tragedy in his city’s history.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, April nineteenth, and we are hopping on with a breaking news situation and we have just seen one of the worst mass shootings in this country in the past several years. But in this one, every single victim that we know of that's deceased is a child with that Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. We are just getting this information in the past several minutes from authorities in Shreveport, Louisiana, in particular Robes, your stomach turns. You don't need to hear many details beyond Robes that think that there are eight kids that were killed here.
00:00:46
Speaker 2: Yes, eight little children from ages one to fourteen. That's the range of ages of these children. And it was so gutting. And look, we have both covered way too many of these types of stories. But hearing the police chief actually give the details to a gaggle of reporters, I'm not sure who else was out in the crowd, but you could hear audibly people gasping and moaning and saying no when they heard him detail that eight children were killed in this mass shooting. And when he gave the ages and the range, people audibly understandably responded.
00:01:29
Speaker 1: In the area we're talking about, folks is Shreveport, and of course people have been familiar with or in that neighborhood Rose. You could imagine on a Sunday, a Sunday morning, which is when we're told police were first called around six am, Shreveport time. So Robes obviously, if there's police activity, a lot going on in a neighborhood at six am. To your point, a lot of those people who were gathered around were waiting on information, just like all of us, about what was happening in their neighborhood. And you could hear Robes, this is yes, we hear. It's one thing to hear or read that information that brought it home in a bizarrely devastating way. Those neighbors, you could tell that those were neighbors, those were friends, those were family, possibly even hearing for the first time what had happened to hear that ten people were shot, we should say, but the eight victims who have been confirmed killed according to authorities, are eight children now or as we go into go back, and this is all we know at this point because it's breaking. But they said this all started with some kind of a domestic call, yes.
00:02:43
Speaker 2: And we know that, we don't know how many, but some of the victims were the shooter's descendants.
00:02:51
Speaker 3: That was how it was described.
00:02:53
Speaker 2: So apparently perhaps just some of the children were related to this person, who, by the way, we can get into the details, but was chased and shot eventually and killed.
00:03:03
Speaker 3: So he is no longer a threat. He's not at large anymore.
00:03:08
Speaker 2: But they described this starting out, or at least initially beginning, as a domestic shooting, So it's unclear exactly how it all happened, and to have it happened so early in the morning is just such a bizarre And yes, I can't imagine are rude awakening neighbors who are on the street. Look, we hear this all the time. But they said, this is truly a quiet street. This is truly a street where it is safe. There are families, you don't see police, you don't hear gunshots ringing out. This was shocking and horrific by anyone's standards, but certainly the folks who live on.
00:03:41
Speaker 3: That street so romes.
00:03:44
Speaker 1: Yes, they have been standing by waiting for information, waiting for an update, and we all just got one a short time ago. But they say they got this call around six o'clock in the morning about a domestic disturbance, and now they're saying when they did arrive, they were it was to at some point confront the shooter, who was able to get away from where the shooting had taken place, got in and carjacked the car, they said, and took off, and there was a chase that ensued. A police chase did happen, they said. They eventually caught up. Officers discharged their weapons and did shoot and kill the suspect, and that is how that happened. But Robes, they described, this was not at a house. This wasn't even at two houses. They describe a sprawling crime scene that Robes I was trying to keep up at least three and maybe up to four different crime scenes.
00:04:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard.
00:04:38
Speaker 2: It may have begun at one home where maybe the man who was eventually shot and killed, who is now being held responsible for this horrific tragedy, started at one house. But yes, they said it spilled out. They named several different addresses, and so it's unclear how this all evolved and became the tragedy that it did. I mean, I just I cannot get my head around. Did he target the children? Were they just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Look the mayor, Shreeport mayor put it like this, and he kind of sums it up. He said, this is the worst tragic situation we have ever had in Shreveport, and that says something.
00:05:18
Speaker 3: This is just this.
00:05:19
Speaker 2: Is Look, any shooting is awful, any any murder is terrible. But I just look, this is up there with some of the worst of the worst. Just to see innocent young children who have nothing to do with whatever was going on, to think that they were the ones who were ultimately shot and killed is just disgusting and heartbreaking.
00:05:41
Speaker 1: You know what, Webes, it's weird to I let my mind go here now, But it's hard to understand kids get caught in crossfire. This many kids get targeted, right, We've seen some tragedies in the past, Robes, It's hard to imagine this many children, many locations just getting caught in crossfire or somebody trying to shoot somebody else. But then it's unimaginable to think that someone targeted that many kids and I didn't see him. Please tell me or if you saw something different. But I didn't see ages on the two victims who were shot that are not deceased, or don't know if those are. I can think maybe would have told us if they were kids as well, but I didn't see it age on the ghost.
00:06:24
Speaker 2: Yes, I did not get specifics on who the other two people who were shot in this mass shooting, nor did at this point did I see an update into their conditions, only that they have initially survived the shooting. But we don't know their conditions beyond that, just that there are two survivors of a total of ten people killed. And yes they got specific about the eight who died. Were all young children?
00:06:50
Speaker 1: How did he phrase it? One? The age the youngest is one or just under one?
00:06:54
Speaker 2: He said, Well, the ages range the victims who were shot between the ages of one and fourteen.
00:07:02
Speaker 1: Again, folks, we were just getting this update from Louisiana, again outside of Freeport, just this morning, six o'clock six am local time, so seven am on the East coast. Police get a call about a domestic disturbance and show up to find a sprawling crime scene, as they describe it, at least three and maybe four different sites as a part of this crime scene. A couple of residences in there, and as a part of it, they have at least ten people that have been shot, eight deceased. In all, eight are children under the age of fourteen. We mentioned Robes, which you just said about the Shreveport mayor talking about this might be one of the worst tragedies in that area. Ever, he's not the only person so far that we have heard from. We are starting to get messages from some of the highest ranks in government because a lot of people Robes. It was immediate and understandable. This is not just your every day shooting, not just your everyday mass shooting, and not just your everyday tragedy. This is going to be different. Stay here, we'll let you know who else we're hearing from. All right, folks, we continue here on this Sunday a breaking news update. We just wanted to hop on and give you the news coming to us just a short time and go from authorities in Shreveport, Louisiana, that eight children have been killed in a mass shooting. What started, they say as a domestic call, a domestic disturbance of some kind that has resulted in the shooting in which eight children, all under the age of fourteen have been killed. Robes, I guess we would understand. We heard from the I guess those are pretty significant word from the Freeport mayor. It's hard to do some kind of comparative tragedy. But Robes, everybody understands when you're talking about a mass shooting, when you're talking about victims and every single one of them is a baby, that's everybody understands. It hits differently.
00:09:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, there really aren't words for just how difficult clear throw clear, it's fine, fine, fine, sorry Jesus a little onto the weather here, so clearly throw it's fine.
00:09:16
Speaker 3: I didn't know how it was going to come out. But yes, they said that this.
00:09:20
Speaker 2: Is beyond words, and that really is where everybody is on this. There are there's nothing you can say to comfort the community or to make sense of the tragedy.
00:09:30
Speaker 3: Yes, the investigation is early.
00:09:32
Speaker 2: They're going to be looking at motive, and of course everyone always wants to know the why, and the idea is to prevent something like this from happening again. But look right now, there is no no motive and there really isn't one that would land in any way that would make any of this make sense.
00:09:48
Speaker 1: That's the reality, and I think a lot of folks immediately recognize. We haven't heard from the president yet on this again, this just happened, but Speaker of Mike Johnson, who of course from Louisiana, Speaker of the House, put out a statement, heartbreaking tragedy in Shreeport this morning. Eight children were senselessly killed and multiple others were injured. My team is in touch with local law enforcement as more details emerge. We're holding the victims that families and loved ones in our Shreeport community clothes in our thoughts and praise during this incredibly difficult time, and we are grateful to the sreport giving a shout out to the police down their robes. This is we're starting. We're starting to get more robes and hear more and more details about this. But we talk about a fascination. We cover a lot of crime, a lot of true crime. We do a lot of this and roes, we watch a lot of it. But the fascination sometimes and trying to understand things that sometimes are incomprehensible in human behavior, and the idea that anybody could do this is not yeah, is incompression, and.
00:10:53
Speaker 2: Especially that these will at least. It appears some of the victims were family members of the gunmen, and that is what also just seems so incredibly senseless. And we talk about the FBI and so many organizations trying to get into the minds and the heads of people who are capable of this sort of thing, because thankfully it is unusual, but it seems I feel like with every shooting we've covered, we always hope that this is the one that will get action, make lawmakers come up with better solutions, make it harder for certain people to have access to firearms, and certainly just raise awareness about warning signs. All of the coverage, it seems like over the last five years have been in an attempt to minimize or to try and get people help before something ends up in a tragic situation like this. But it seems so frustrating. I can't imagine what law enforcements must feel like in these moments, Like you just feel helpless, the neighbors, the family members. You feel helpless because even with all of the prior acts of heinousness that we have seen, all of the education that we have provided to our schools, to our kids, to our families to be able to watch out for warning signs, to look for problems before they get to this point. And still we just keep hitting this same horrific wall and it's just awful and it's unthinkable and it's inexplainable, inexplicable.
00:12:22
Speaker 3: I guess, well, I guess robes.
00:12:24
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, this is we always we will look and there's usually robes. There's gonna be something they figure out. There's gonna be some sign they're gonna say the calls to this house have happened before, they're gonna they're gonna say all kinds of things that something was missed somewhere along the way, and maybe we'll learn and do better the next time around. Or robes do we just need to understand sometimes there are monsters among us. Sometimes we can't explain why things happen and why people do what they do. And sometimes there's just evil robes. I don't know, but these are the ones that hit differently and you just your herd can't even break here. Robes.
00:13:09
Speaker 2: It's soul crushing really in a lot of ways, among the folks who have already spoken up and spoken out about this tragedy. And look, this is all developing the investigation is ongoing right now, they're still processing the scene. I was thinking about so many of these young kids who are supposed to be in school on Monday and won't be Like just this affects the entire community, so many layers the to just the ripple effects that something like this happens. But we heard from Gabby Gifford's obviously a woman unfortunately who has suffered herself through gun violence, but her big focus is of course on prevention, and she put this out following this mass shooting. She said, this is a devastating act of domestic gun violence, taking the lives of eight young children. My heart is breaking for their families, the survivors, and everyone in Shreveport today.
00:13:58
Speaker 3: All of us should be outraged.
00:14:00
Speaker 2: That we live in a country that routinely subjects our kids to such unimaginable violence.
00:14:05
Speaker 1: And let that debate, obviously, that debate is it always usually pretty much happens immediately, doesn't it's right after a shooting like this, But for the day, for the moment, this is an awful tragedy. We should always take a moment, take note of, take in and I mean take care, yeah, quite frankly Robes, but that's the update. Plenty more to come. If anything else hops out on this one, we'll hop back on and let you know here. But I don't know when we're expecting the next update from authorities down there, but there will be a lot updates on this one. But the initial reporting eight children have been killed in a shooting in tree Fort, Louisiana today, eight children, all under the age of fourteen in Treeport, eight of them killed in a mass shooting. The gunman is dead, so not a threat to the community, but we have eight go ahead.
00:15:01
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, these are the stories.
00:15:02
Speaker 2: The only silver lining that can come out of this type of tragedy is just a reminder hug your kids, Hug the people you love, tell them you love them. This is something that none of us could ever anticipate or expect, and it's just so heartbreaking to hear. It can really it can bring you down in a way that you just feel like, what are we? Who are we as a whole, as a society, as a community, And I guess the only thing we can all do individually is just to be kind, to love, and to reach out and help people when they need it, because we don't know what tomorrow brings, and this is just one of those stories. I'm going to jump off this microphone and tell my kids I love them, and I'm sure everyone else feels the same after hearing a story like this, but we always appreciate you listening to us. Everyone, thank you so much for being here. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes, and we will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, April nineteenth, and we are hopping on with a breaking news situation and we have just seen one of the worst mass shootings in this country in the past several years. But in this one, every single victim that we know of that's deceased is a child with that Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. We are just getting this information in the past several minutes from authorities in Shreveport, Louisiana, in particular Robes, your stomach turns. You don't need to hear many details beyond Robes that think that there are eight kids that were killed here.
00:00:46
Speaker 2: Yes, eight little children from ages one to fourteen. That's the range of ages of these children. And it was so gutting. And look, we have both covered way too many of these types of stories. But hearing the police chief actually give the details to a gaggle of reporters, I'm not sure who else was out in the crowd, but you could hear audibly people gasping and moaning and saying no when they heard him detail that eight children were killed in this mass shooting. And when he gave the ages and the range, people audibly understandably responded.
00:01:29
Speaker 1: In the area we're talking about, folks is Shreveport, and of course people have been familiar with or in that neighborhood Rose. You could imagine on a Sunday, a Sunday morning, which is when we're told police were first called around six am, Shreveport time. So Robes obviously, if there's police activity, a lot going on in a neighborhood at six am. To your point, a lot of those people who were gathered around were waiting on information, just like all of us, about what was happening in their neighborhood. And you could hear Robes, this is yes, we hear. It's one thing to hear or read that information that brought it home in a bizarrely devastating way. Those neighbors, you could tell that those were neighbors, those were friends, those were family, possibly even hearing for the first time what had happened to hear that ten people were shot, we should say, but the eight victims who have been confirmed killed according to authorities, are eight children now or as we go into go back, and this is all we know at this point because it's breaking. But they said this all started with some kind of a domestic call, yes.
00:02:43
Speaker 2: And we know that, we don't know how many, but some of the victims were the shooter's descendants.
00:02:51
Speaker 3: That was how it was described.
00:02:53
Speaker 2: So apparently perhaps just some of the children were related to this person, who, by the way, we can get into the details, but was chased and shot eventually and killed.
00:03:03
Speaker 3: So he is no longer a threat. He's not at large anymore.
00:03:08
Speaker 2: But they described this starting out, or at least initially beginning, as a domestic shooting, So it's unclear exactly how it all happened, and to have it happened so early in the morning is just such a bizarre And yes, I can't imagine are rude awakening neighbors who are on the street. Look, we hear this all the time. But they said, this is truly a quiet street. This is truly a street where it is safe. There are families, you don't see police, you don't hear gunshots ringing out. This was shocking and horrific by anyone's standards, but certainly the folks who live on.
00:03:41
Speaker 3: That street so romes.
00:03:44
Speaker 1: Yes, they have been standing by waiting for information, waiting for an update, and we all just got one a short time ago. But they say they got this call around six o'clock in the morning about a domestic disturbance, and now they're saying when they did arrive, they were it was to at some point confront the shooter, who was able to get away from where the shooting had taken place, got in and carjacked the car, they said, and took off, and there was a chase that ensued. A police chase did happen, they said. They eventually caught up. Officers discharged their weapons and did shoot and kill the suspect, and that is how that happened. But Robes, they described, this was not at a house. This wasn't even at two houses. They describe a sprawling crime scene that Robes I was trying to keep up at least three and maybe up to four different crime scenes.
00:04:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard.
00:04:38
Speaker 2: It may have begun at one home where maybe the man who was eventually shot and killed, who is now being held responsible for this horrific tragedy, started at one house. But yes, they said it spilled out. They named several different addresses, and so it's unclear how this all evolved and became the tragedy that it did. I mean, I just I cannot get my head around. Did he target the children? Were they just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Look the mayor, Shreeport mayor put it like this, and he kind of sums it up. He said, this is the worst tragic situation we have ever had in Shreveport, and that says something.
00:05:18
Speaker 3: This is just this.
00:05:19
Speaker 2: Is Look, any shooting is awful, any any murder is terrible. But I just look, this is up there with some of the worst of the worst. Just to see innocent young children who have nothing to do with whatever was going on, to think that they were the ones who were ultimately shot and killed is just disgusting and heartbreaking.
00:05:41
Speaker 1: You know what, Webes, it's weird to I let my mind go here now, But it's hard to understand kids get caught in crossfire. This many kids get targeted, right, We've seen some tragedies in the past, Robes, It's hard to imagine this many children, many locations just getting caught in crossfire or somebody trying to shoot somebody else. But then it's unimaginable to think that someone targeted that many kids and I didn't see him. Please tell me or if you saw something different. But I didn't see ages on the two victims who were shot that are not deceased, or don't know if those are. I can think maybe would have told us if they were kids as well, but I didn't see it age on the ghost.
00:06:24
Speaker 2: Yes, I did not get specifics on who the other two people who were shot in this mass shooting, nor did at this point did I see an update into their conditions, only that they have initially survived the shooting. But we don't know their conditions beyond that, just that there are two survivors of a total of ten people killed. And yes they got specific about the eight who died. Were all young children?
00:06:50
Speaker 1: How did he phrase it? One? The age the youngest is one or just under one?
00:06:54
Speaker 2: He said, Well, the ages range the victims who were shot between the ages of one and fourteen.
00:07:02
Speaker 1: Again, folks, we were just getting this update from Louisiana, again outside of Freeport, just this morning, six o'clock six am local time, so seven am on the East coast. Police get a call about a domestic disturbance and show up to find a sprawling crime scene, as they describe it, at least three and maybe four different sites as a part of this crime scene. A couple of residences in there, and as a part of it, they have at least ten people that have been shot, eight deceased. In all, eight are children under the age of fourteen. We mentioned Robes, which you just said about the Shreveport mayor talking about this might be one of the worst tragedies in that area. Ever, he's not the only person so far that we have heard from. We are starting to get messages from some of the highest ranks in government because a lot of people Robes. It was immediate and understandable. This is not just your every day shooting, not just your everyday mass shooting, and not just your everyday tragedy. This is going to be different. Stay here, we'll let you know who else we're hearing from. All right, folks, we continue here on this Sunday a breaking news update. We just wanted to hop on and give you the news coming to us just a short time and go from authorities in Shreveport, Louisiana, that eight children have been killed in a mass shooting. What started, they say as a domestic call, a domestic disturbance of some kind that has resulted in the shooting in which eight children, all under the age of fourteen have been killed. Robes, I guess we would understand. We heard from the I guess those are pretty significant word from the Freeport mayor. It's hard to do some kind of comparative tragedy. But Robes, everybody understands when you're talking about a mass shooting, when you're talking about victims and every single one of them is a baby, that's everybody understands. It hits differently.
00:09:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, there really aren't words for just how difficult clear throw clear, it's fine, fine, fine, sorry Jesus a little onto the weather here, so clearly throw it's fine.
00:09:16
Speaker 3: I didn't know how it was going to come out. But yes, they said that this.
00:09:20
Speaker 2: Is beyond words, and that really is where everybody is on this. There are there's nothing you can say to comfort the community or to make sense of the tragedy.
00:09:30
Speaker 3: Yes, the investigation is early.
00:09:32
Speaker 2: They're going to be looking at motive, and of course everyone always wants to know the why, and the idea is to prevent something like this from happening again. But look right now, there is no no motive and there really isn't one that would land in any way that would make any of this make sense.
00:09:48
Speaker 1: That's the reality, and I think a lot of folks immediately recognize. We haven't heard from the president yet on this again, this just happened, but Speaker of Mike Johnson, who of course from Louisiana, Speaker of the House, put out a statement, heartbreaking tragedy in Shreeport this morning. Eight children were senselessly killed and multiple others were injured. My team is in touch with local law enforcement as more details emerge. We're holding the victims that families and loved ones in our Shreeport community clothes in our thoughts and praise during this incredibly difficult time, and we are grateful to the sreport giving a shout out to the police down their robes. This is we're starting. We're starting to get more robes and hear more and more details about this. But we talk about a fascination. We cover a lot of crime, a lot of true crime. We do a lot of this and roes, we watch a lot of it. But the fascination sometimes and trying to understand things that sometimes are incomprehensible in human behavior, and the idea that anybody could do this is not yeah, is incompression, and.
00:10:53
Speaker 2: Especially that these will at least. It appears some of the victims were family members of the gunmen, and that is what also just seems so incredibly senseless. And we talk about the FBI and so many organizations trying to get into the minds and the heads of people who are capable of this sort of thing, because thankfully it is unusual, but it seems I feel like with every shooting we've covered, we always hope that this is the one that will get action, make lawmakers come up with better solutions, make it harder for certain people to have access to firearms, and certainly just raise awareness about warning signs. All of the coverage, it seems like over the last five years have been in an attempt to minimize or to try and get people help before something ends up in a tragic situation like this. But it seems so frustrating. I can't imagine what law enforcements must feel like in these moments, Like you just feel helpless, the neighbors, the family members. You feel helpless because even with all of the prior acts of heinousness that we have seen, all of the education that we have provided to our schools, to our kids, to our families to be able to watch out for warning signs, to look for problems before they get to this point. And still we just keep hitting this same horrific wall and it's just awful and it's unthinkable and it's inexplainable, inexplicable.
00:12:22
Speaker 3: I guess, well, I guess robes.
00:12:24
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, this is we always we will look and there's usually robes. There's gonna be something they figure out. There's gonna be some sign they're gonna say the calls to this house have happened before, they're gonna they're gonna say all kinds of things that something was missed somewhere along the way, and maybe we'll learn and do better the next time around. Or robes do we just need to understand sometimes there are monsters among us. Sometimes we can't explain why things happen and why people do what they do. And sometimes there's just evil robes. I don't know, but these are the ones that hit differently and you just your herd can't even break here. Robes.
00:13:09
Speaker 2: It's soul crushing really in a lot of ways, among the folks who have already spoken up and spoken out about this tragedy. And look, this is all developing the investigation is ongoing right now, they're still processing the scene. I was thinking about so many of these young kids who are supposed to be in school on Monday and won't be Like just this affects the entire community, so many layers the to just the ripple effects that something like this happens. But we heard from Gabby Gifford's obviously a woman unfortunately who has suffered herself through gun violence, but her big focus is of course on prevention, and she put this out following this mass shooting. She said, this is a devastating act of domestic gun violence, taking the lives of eight young children. My heart is breaking for their families, the survivors, and everyone in Shreveport today.
00:13:58
Speaker 3: All of us should be outraged.
00:14:00
Speaker 2: That we live in a country that routinely subjects our kids to such unimaginable violence.
00:14:05
Speaker 1: And let that debate, obviously, that debate is it always usually pretty much happens immediately, doesn't it's right after a shooting like this, But for the day, for the moment, this is an awful tragedy. We should always take a moment, take note of, take in and I mean take care, yeah, quite frankly Robes, but that's the update. Plenty more to come. If anything else hops out on this one, we'll hop back on and let you know here. But I don't know when we're expecting the next update from authorities down there, but there will be a lot updates on this one. But the initial reporting eight children have been killed in a shooting in tree Fort, Louisiana today, eight children, all under the age of fourteen in Treeport, eight of them killed in a mass shooting. The gunman is dead, so not a threat to the community, but we have eight go ahead.
00:15:01
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, these are the stories.
00:15:02
Speaker 2: The only silver lining that can come out of this type of tragedy is just a reminder hug your kids, Hug the people you love, tell them you love them. This is something that none of us could ever anticipate or expect, and it's just so heartbreaking to hear. It can really it can bring you down in a way that you just feel like, what are we? Who are we as a whole, as a society, as a community, And I guess the only thing we can all do individually is just to be kind, to love, and to reach out and help people when they need it, because we don't know what tomorrow brings, and this is just one of those stories. I'm going to jump off this microphone and tell my kids I love them, and I'm sure everyone else feels the same after hearing a story like this, but we always appreciate you listening to us. Everyone, thank you so much for being here. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes, and we will talk to you soon.