2026年4月20日 / 美国东部时间上午11:06 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
路易斯安那州什里夫波特市8名儿童遭枪杀惨案的目击者邻居们描述了周日清晨他们听到和看到的“混乱场面”，一名男子杀害了自己的7名子女和1名表亲。
警方已确认嫌疑人是沙马尔·埃尔金斯，他在实施枪击后驾驶被盗车辆逃离警方追捕，最终在警方追逐并交火后身亡。
两名目击者雅各布·卡斯尔曼和蒂法妮·卡斯尔曼告诉哥伦比亚广播公司旗下KSLA电视台，他们在家门外目睹“全面交火”时感到震惊和恐惧。蒂法妮说，她听到警笛声和疑似枪声后叫醒了丈夫。
“然后当我听到密集的枪声时，我就知道这是一场全面交火，肯定出事了，”她告诉该电视台。“当时我们完全不知道后来发生的事，但我当时极度恐惧。”
雅各布说，他的第一反应是“房子后面绝对不可能发生这种事”。
“我完全惊呆了……现场一片混乱，”他告诉KSLA电视台。“老实说，这是我从未经历过的场面。”
他告诉记者，他记得听到更多枪声，听起来“离我们夫妻俩睡觉的地方非常近”。出门后，他看到警察拔枪瞄准，大喊让嫌疑人举手投降并出来。
丽莎·德明是案发住宅隔壁两户的邻居，她告诉美联社，她的监控摄像头拍到了枪手逃跑的画面和两声枪响。
“我基本只看到他跑出房子，还有车辆离开，”她说。
德明告诉美联社，她后来看到一名孩童被遮盖的遗体放在住宅的屋顶上。
社区反应
经营“希望儿童中心”日托所的拉舒安·贝里认识嫌疑人及其家人，他说埃尔金斯看起来“没有灵魂”。
“你能从他的眼神里看出来，眼里空洞无物，死一般的眼神，”贝里告诉KSLA电视台。“没有灵魂，非玩家角色，他就是这样。”
但社区其他居民表示，这起悲剧性犯罪出人意料。
住在枪击案住宅街对面的邻居弗雷德·蒙哥马利告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他没有看到任何迹象表明嫌疑人会做出这种事。
“孩子们每天晚上都在院子里玩，”蒙哥马利说。“昨天晚上，他坐在门廊上，我向他挥手，他也回了挥手，孩子们当时就在院子里……今天早上我们醒来就发生了这一切。”
一名不愿透露姓名的受害者亲属的朋友告诉KSLA电视台，嫌疑人“基本上失联了”。
“我们不知道是什么触发了他，不知道到底发生了什么。但他对这些孩子所做的事，本不该发生，”这名人士说。“每次我见到他，他都面带笑容，一切如常。我从来没有深入了解过他的过往，不清楚家里出了什么问题，但他们家从来没有表现出任何问题。”
警方表示，嫌疑人枪击了10人，其中包括两名女子，其中一人是他的妻子。一名亲属告诉美联社，两人都是嫌疑人子女的母亲，他和妻子原本计划周一出庭处理分居事宜，此前两人一直在争吵。
嫌疑人最初在大约凌晨5点开始的家庭纠纷中朝一名女子面部开枪，随后前往该地区另一处住宅，枪杀了全部8名遇难者。警方称这起枪击案是美国两年多来最严重的枪击事件，属于“处决式枪杀”，嫌疑人针对试图从窗户逃离住宅的受害者。
根据验尸官办公室的信息，遇难儿童分别是：3岁的杰拉·埃尔金斯、5岁的谢拉·埃尔金斯、6岁的凯拉·普、7岁的莱拉·普、10岁的马凯登·普、11岁的萨里亚·斯诺、6岁的克达里昂·斯诺和5岁的布雷隆·斯诺。
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Neighbors recall “full-blown shootout” after father targets children in mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana
April 20, 2026 / 11:06 AM EDT / CBS News
Neighbors who witnessed the aftermath of the massacre of eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana are describing the “chaos” they heard and saw as a father fatally shot seven of his own children and one of their cousins early Sunday morning.
Police have identified the suspected gunman as Shamar Elkins, who fled law enforcement in a stolen car after carrying out the shooting. They said he died after officers chased him and opened fire.
Two witnesses, Jacob and Tiffany Castleman, told CBS affiliate KSLA they were shocked and horrified as “a full-blown shootout” took place outside their home. Tiffany said she woke her husband after hearing sirens and what she believed was possible gunfire.
“And then when I heard the barrage, I knew that there was a full-blown shootout, something going,” she told the station. “Mind you, we had no clue the later incidents that happened, but I had just full terror.”
Jacob said his first thought was “there’s no way that that just happened behind our house.”
“I was just in total shock. … it was just chaos,” he told KSLA . “I mean, honestly like, it was just nothing like I’ve ever experienced.”
He told the station he remembered hearing more gunfire, seemingly “pretty close” to where he and his wife had been sleeping. Once outside, he said that he saw police officers with their guns drawn, shouting to the suspect to put his hands up and come out.
Liza Demming, a neighbor who lives two houses down from the residence where most victims were shot, told The Associated Press that her security camera captured video of the gunman running away and the sounds of two shots.
“That’s pretty much all I saw, was him running out of the house and the cars leaving,” she said.
Demming told AP that she later saw a child’s covered body on the roof of the residence.
Community reacts
Lashuan Berry, who owns the daycare Valley of Hope Center for Kids and knew the suspect and his family, said Elkins seemed to have “no soul.”
“You could see in his eyes, nothing behind the eyes. Dead behind the eyes,” Berry told KSLA. “No soul. NPC, non-player character. He didn’t have one.”
The house where a mass shooting took place is seen in Shreveport, Louisiana, on April 19, 2026. Gianrigo MARLETTA /AFP via Getty Images
But others in the community have said the tragic crime was unexpected.
Fred Montgomery, a neighbor who lives across the street from the home where the shooting happened, told CBS News he hadn’t seen any signs the gunman would do something like this.
“The kids played in the yard every evening,” Montgomery said. “Yesterday evening, he was sitting on the porch, I waved at him, he waved back, the children were in the yard … and then this morning we woke up to all of this.”
A friend of a relative of one of the victims, who asked for anonymity, told KSLA the suspect “basically went AWOL.”
“We do not know what triggered him. We don’t know what happened. But to do what he did to those kids should have never happened at all,” the person said. “Every time I seen him, he was nothing but smiles and everything like that. I never dove into the backstory of it to figure out what was going on, but they never, ever showed any problems within the household.”
Police said the gunman shot 10 people, including two women, one of whom was his wife. A relative told AP that both were the mothers of the gunman’s children, and he and his wife had been arguing about their separation ahead of a scheduled court appearance Monday.
The gunman initially shot one woman in the face during a domestic dispute that began at around 5 a.m., before traveling to a different residence in the area and shooting all of the eight people who were killed. Police described the shooting — the nation’s deadliest in more than two years — as “execution-style,” and said the gunman targeted victims as they tried to escape the home through a window.
According to the coroner’s office, the mothers identified the children as: Jayla Elkins, age 3; Shayla Elkins, 5; Kayla Pugh, 6; Layla Pugh, 7; Markaydon Pugh, 10; Sariahh Snow, 11; Khedarrion Snow, 6; and Braylon Snow, 5.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.