NEW details have emerged after police said a ninth child made a harrowing escape from the Louisiana massacre that left eight children dead.
The boy survived by jumping from the roof as gunfire tore through the house, though police said he suffered broken bones in the fall.
In Shreveport, Louisiana, cops said a woman also escaped through a roof window above the garage and called 911, while a third attempt to get out ended with a child being shot on the roof.
Police said the bloodshed unfolded before 6 am Sunday in a domestic attack across two homes.
By the time it ended, eight children were dead and two women had been shot and critically hurt.
Cops say the suspect was 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, the father of seven of the children killed.
Authorities said he acted alone and later died after fleeing the area and triggering a police chase.
Police said the first shooting happened on Harrison Street, where Elkins’ wife was shot.
He then went to a second home on West 79th Street, where the children and another woman were shot.
Most of the children were in the house when the gunman opened fire.
Police have said many of them were asleep when the shooting began.
Officers said all eight children who died were found at the same house.
One child was found dead on the roof after trying to escape.
The surviving boy was 13, police said.
He was not shot, but was hurt when he jumped from the roof to get away and later taken to a hospital.
Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said the first 911 call came in at 5:55am.
The caller told dispatch they were on the roof and that someone inside the house had a gun and was shooting.
A few minutes later, another call said the woman and her children had made it off the roof and were now in the backyard.
The children killed 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.
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