India, April 21 -- One child managed to escape a family massacre in Louisiana over the weekend by leaping from the roof of the residence. The incident took place when crazed 31-year-old Army vet Shamar Elkins opened fire in the residence in Shreveport.

The disturbed father took the lives of seven of his children and one of their cousins during a violent outburst in the early hours of the morning. Elkins, who was in the midst of a divorce, also shot his estranged spouse and a girlfriend in the head before stealing a vehicle, which initiated a police pursuit that concluded with law enforcement fatally shooting him in the adjacent Bossier City. Both women managed to survive the attack.

Christopher Bordelon, a spokesperson for the Shrevepor...