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The victims of a mass shooting in northwestern Pennsylvania included the gunman’s wife and pregnant daughter who was born on Monday, authorities said.
Matthew Stone, 45, died Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing six members of his family and two neighbors, Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook told NBC News on Monday.
The victims included the shooter’s wife Michelle Stone, 44, pregnant daughter Angelina K. Stone, 24, and sons Matthew Stone Jr., 21, and Jonathan Stone, 19, according to the coroner.
Angelina Stone was “carrying an unborn fetus that was born today,” Cook said.
Two other unidentified children, a 5-year-old boy and a nearly 2-year-old girl, were also related to the shooter and killed in the home, according to the coroner.
All of the Stones lived on 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 slain little girl, said he struggles to understand why the elder Stone opened fire.
“I wouldn’t even put this on my worst enemy man,” Ezekiel told NBC affiliate WICU. “It’s sick.”
The little girl would have turned 2 next month.
“Her name is Amari’anna,” Ezekiel said. “She is the most beautiful baby God could have created.”
