États-Unis : Huit enfants tués par balles dans des violences intrafamiliales en Louisiane
Eight children were shot dead in domestic violence in Louisiana, and the suspected perpetrator was killed by police, authorities in Shreveport, a city in the southern US state, announced Sunday. It was the worst mass shooting in the United States in more than two years.
Called out early Sunday to respond to violence, police discovered victims in two homes, Corporal Chris Bordelon said at a press conference, adding that a third location is involved in the investigation.
At least 10 people were shot during the violence on Saturday night, "eight of whom died, aged between 1 and 14 years old," he said.
Some of the miners killed "were the children" of the alleged perpetrator, added the police officer from Shreveport, a major metropolitan area in northern Louisiana.
Two women, close to the suspect, were seriously injured, the city's mayor, Tom Arceneaux, told CNN.
A young man was also injured after jumping off a roof, according to local station KTBS.
The man suspected of carrying out the massacre, whose identity has not been revealed, was chased by police after forcibly seizing a car.
Police claimed he was killed by officers, but Mayor Tom Arceneaux said he did not know if he was actually shot by police or if he turned his own gun on himself.
No officers were injured, according to the Louisiana State Police, which is participating in the investigation.
- "Senseless tragedy" -
Governor Jeff Landry said he was "heartbroken".
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and representative for the region, denounced on X a "senseless tragedy."
According to data from the NGO Gun Violence Archive, which is a reference, this is the worst toll from a mass shooting in the United States since the deaths of eight people in a Chicago suburb in January 2024.
Before that, the Uvalde tragedy in 2022 in Texas (south) had shaken the country, when an 18-year-old man killed two teachers and 19 children in an elementary school.
With more firearms in circulation than inhabitants, the United States has the highest firearm mortality rate of any developed country.
Shootings are a recurring scourge that successive governments have so far failed to stem, with many Americans remaining very attached to their guns.
By 2025, nearly 15,000 people, not counting suicides, will have been killed by firearms, according to Gun Violence Archive.
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