The victims of a mass shooting in northwestern Pennsylvania included the shooter’s wife and his pregnant daughter who was due to give birth Monday, authorities said.
Matthew Stone, 45, died Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing six members of his own family and two neighbors, Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook told NBC News on Monday.
The victims included the shooter’s wife Michelle Stone, 44, his pregnant daughter Angelina K. Stone, 24, and his sons Matthew Stone Jr., 21, and Jonathan Stone, 19, according to the coroner.
Angelina Stone was carrying “an unborn fetus that was supposed to have been born today,” Cook said.
Two other unidentified children, a 5-year-old boy and a nearly 2-year-old girl, were also linked to the shooter and killed inside the home, according to the coroner.
All of the Stones lived in that Perry Street home while victims Twila A. Tanner, 51, and Lora Lee Roberts, 37, were neighbors who were fatally shot outside, Cook said.
Juicesiyah Alexander Ezekiel, father of the murdered little girl, said he struggled to understand why the elder Stone opened fire.
“I wouldn’t even put that on my worst enemy,” Ezekiel told NBC affiliate WICU. “It’s sickening.”
The little girl was going to be 2 years old next month.
“Her name is Amari’anna,” Ezekiel said. “This is the most beautiful baby God could have created.”
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