SHREVEPORT, La. — Investigators are looking into how the former National Guardsman suspected of killing eight children in Louisiana on Sunday got a gun — despite an illegal firearms conviction on his

Police say a Louisiana man who fatally shot seven of his children and another child used an an assault-style weapon despite a 2019 felony firearms conviction.

A 31-year-old man shot and killed his seven young children and a cousin and critically wounded his wife and another woman Sunday morning in northwestern Louisiana, authorities said, a shocking act of violence that marks the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in more than two years.

Neighbors who witnessed the deadly mass shooting of eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana, recalled what whey heard and saw as the massacre took place early Sunday.

Across Shreveport, Louisiana, schools were limping through the day, stung by the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years.

Shamar Elkins had been suffering severe mental health problems, his family said. His deadly rampage, which killed eight children, has profoundly scarred a community facing rising domestic violence.

A gunman killed eight children and shot two women in a domestic violence spree, police say.

The man who killed eight children and wounded two women in Louisiana had sought mental health care from Veterans Affairs.