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SHREVEPORT, La. — A gunman killed eight children, including seven of his own, and shot two other people Sunday in an early morning attack of domestic violence carried out across two houses, authorities said, shaking a Shreveport neighborhood in one of the nation’s deadliest .

Those killed ranged in age from a year old to about 12 years old, and one of the adults wounded was the mother of some of the suspect’s children, said Shreveport Police Department spokesperson Chris Bordelon. The suspect, whom Bordelon identified as Shamar Elkins, died after a police pursuit.