Massacre occurred today in Louisiana with a gunman opening fire and killing eight children including a baby.

Reports say the massacre occurred when a gunman killed relatives’ children in three separate homes.

The brutal incident occurred in Shreveport, Louisiana, resulting in the deaths of eight children between the ages of 1 and 14, Shreveport Police Department spokesman Christopher Bordelon told NBC television.

Initial reports say that after the shooting at three different homes in the same neighborhood, the gunman occupied a car and came under police fire.

Now, police have not released any information about the person in question. But Christopher Bordelon told NBC that “some of the children who were killed were his descendants.”