{"id":16526,"date":"2026-04-21T00:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=16526"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:21:25","slug":"louisiana-shooter-shamar-elkins-chilling-remarks-before-killing-his-7-kids-and-their-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=16526","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana shooter Shamar Elkins\u2019 chilling remarks before killing his 7 kids and their cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a quiet Easter Sunday, Shamar Elkins called his parents in despair, speaking of divorce and wanting to end his life. Marcus Jackson tried to reassure him, but Elkins\u2019 words\u2014\u201csome people don\u2019t come back from their demons\u201d\u2014now echo over a shattered family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Days later in Shreveport, police found a devastating scene: eight children killed, two women critically injured, and the suspect dead. What remains is grief\u2014families mourning, responders scarred, and loved ones replaying that final call, wondering if anything could have changed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a quiet Easter Sunday, Shamar Elkins called his parents in despair, speaking of divorce and wanting to end his life. Marcus Jackson tried to reassure him, but Elkins\u2019 words\u2014\u201csome people don\u2019t come back from their demons\u201d\u2014now echo over a shattered family. Days later in Shreveport, police found a devastating scene: eight children killed, two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}