911 call after Shamar Elkins killed 8 kids and shot their moms in ‘disgusting and evil scene’
Chilling 911 dispatcher audio captures the moment police learned that crazed Army vet Shamar Elkins had murdered eight young kids — with one of the two women he also shot able to raise the alarm.
“They have a female with a gunshot wound to the face saying the assailant left the scene,” the dispatcher says in the call early Sunday, as reported by the “Today” show.
“The female is saying there’s nine subjects that live inside the residence, and he may have shot them all,” the dispatcher continues of what police in Shreveport, Louisiana, called a “disgusting and evil scene.”
Elkins, 31, a Louisiana State Guard veteran, killed eight children — five girls and three boys ages 3 to 11 — and seriously wounded two women believed to be his wife and his girlfriend. Seven of the kids were his children with the women while the eighth was one of the slain kids’ cousins.
Elkins attacked one of the women at the first address before traveling to a nearby second home, where he killed the children, according to police.
Later, the dispatcher describes how Elkins has been shot after engaging cops in a police chase into neighboring Bossier City.
“Confirm shots fired,” the dispatcher says.
Many of the young victims appeared to have been shot in the head while they slept, according to Shreveport Police Department spokesperson Chris Bordelon.
Seven of them were found dead inside the house while the eighth was killed on a back roof after apparently trying to flee, Bordelon said.
A ninth child, 13, escaped the home alive with broken bones after jumping off the roof.

The deceased children were identified as Jayla Elkins, 3; Shayla Elkins, 5; Kayla Pugh, 6; Layla Pugh, 7; Markaydon Pugh, 10; Sariahh Snow, 11; Khedarrion Snow, 6; and Braylon Snow, 5, according to a Caddo Parish Coroner’s Office statement obtained by KSLA.
Elkins, who had confessed his “dark thoughts” to relatives in recent weeks, was the father of seven of the eight children shot and killed.
Police are still trying to establish a motive for his despicable crimes.
It was reported that he and his wife, Sheniqua Pugh, were in the process of divorcing and were due in court in Shreveport on Monday.
The shooting is now being investigated by Louisiana State Police.