The deranged Army vet who savagely murdered his seven kids and nephew in Louisiana on Sunday once ominously warned his wife he would kill their entire family if she ever left him.

“I’ll kill you, my kids and myself,” Shamar Elkins, 31, hissed to his spouse, Shaneiqua Pugh, three years ago after she said she was considering filing for divorce, according to the killer’s adoptive mother, who witnessed the comment, to the New York Times.

A group of children and adults, including Shaneiqua Elkins, Jayla Elkins, Kayla Pugh, Layla Pugh, Shayla Elkins, Khedarrion Snow, Braylon Snow, Sariahh Snow, and Markaydon Pugh, holding black bags in what appears to be a restaurant.
Shamar Elkins once told his wife he would kill her, himself and their children if she ever divorced him.Facebook/Shaneiqua Elkins

Collage of Shamar Elkins with seven children and a headshot of Mar'kaydon, 10, in the top left corner.
Elkins murdered his seven kids and nephew.Facebook/Shamar Elkins
Betty Walker said she was in the kitchen cooking when her adopted son made the frightening declaration as he and Pugh were sitting on the couch while their four daughters were playing outside.

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Walker said she approached Elkins to voice her disapproval, telling him, “Don’t think like that,” while Pugh dismissed his threat as her husband “just playing.”

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The older woman said she told the couple, “Well, don’t play like that.”

This past weekend, Elkins fatally shot his seven children — his four daughters with Pugh: Jayla, 3, Shayla, 5, Kayla, 6, and Layla, 7 — and three kids by girlfriend, Christina Snow: Braylon, 5, Khedarrion, 6, and Sariahh, 11.

He also shot dead Mar’Kaydon Pugh, 10, the son of his wife’s sister, Keosha, who also lived at the West 79th Street home in Shreveport, where the Sunday morning massacre took place and broke her hip attempting to escape the rampage by jumping off the roof.

Shamar Elkins and Shaneiqua Elkins, aka Nene Pugh, taking a selfie together.
Elkins with his wife Shaneiqua Pugh. Facebook/Shaneiqua Elkins

Shamar Elkins with his children Shayla Elkins, Layla Pugh, Jayla Elkins, Sariahh Snow, Braylon Snow, Kayla Pugh, and Khedarrion Snow.
“I’ll kill you, my kids and myself,” Elkins said to his wife three years earlier.Facebook/Shamar Elkins
He turned his “assault-style” pistol on Pugh and Snow, too, severely wounding both women.

Elkins — who ended up fatally shooting himself as cops closed in — had been due in divorce court with Pugh the next day.