Sariahh Snow, 11, was one of eight children killed on April 19, 2026, in a mass shooting at a home on West 79th Street in the Cedar Grove area of Shreveport. Police described the incident as stemming from domestic violence and identified 31-year-old Shamar Elkins as the lone suspected shooter. Authorities said the attack began before sunrise after dispatchers received reports of people fleeing onto the roof while the suspect remained inside; officers later found multiple children dead and a teenager injured after jumping from the roof to escape.

Investigators linked the West 79th Street massacre to a related shooting minutes earlier on Harrison Street, where a woman reported her boyfriend had shot her and fled with three children. Two adult women were hospitalized with serious injuries and were reported to be mothers of Elkins’ children, including Shaneiqua Pugh and Christina Snow, who was reported to be the mother of Sariahh, Khedarrion, and Braylon Snow.

Police recovered a handgun at the residence and a rifle-style handgun on Elkins and noted a prior guilty plea to a weapons charge in 2019. No arrest was made because the suspect died at the scene, and authorities said they did not believe anyone else carried out the killings. Did anyone in the Cedar Grove area see or hear anything that morning that could help explain how the events unfolded?