{"id":304318,"date":"2026-10-11T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304318\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:50:07","slug":"pennsylvania-mom-angelina-stone-was-days-away-from-giving-birth-before-she-was-among-8-killed-in-erie-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304318\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania mom Angelina Stone was days away from giving birth before she was among 8 killed in Erie mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Pennsylvania pregnant mother of two was expecting to give birth this week before she was among 9 people who were left dead \u2014 including the gunman \u2014 in a suspected murder-suicide<\/a>, devastated loved ones revealed Saturday.<\/p>\n

Angelina Stone was killed alongside her three children \u2014 5-year-old son Isiah, daughter Amari\u2019anna and her unborn child Kyrie \u2014 and several relatives when a gunman opened fire just before 5 p.m. on Friday at a home in Erie, Pa.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was pregnant, about to have her baby in a couple days and she had a daughter that was almost 2 and her son Isiah and they were all just beautiful,\u201d family friend Lisa Simmers told Erie News Now.<\/a><\/p>\n

Angelina Stone was identified as one of the victim of a mass shooting that killed nine people in Erie, Pa., on Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: gofundme.com<\/p>\n

Stone posted on social media that her due date was on October 14. <\/p>\n

Police didn\u2019t disclose the gunman\u2019s identity. However, the victims\u2019 relatives accused Stone\u2019s father of committing the evening massacre before he turned the gun on himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cAngelina\u2019s father killed Angelina and her children in a murder-suicide, and now our family is facing the painful task of laying them to rest,\u201d Aaliyah Williams, the aunt of Stone\u2019s daughter, wrote in a GoFundMe.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old gunman began firing off rounds at the residence on the 700 block of Perry Road in the city\u2019s East Side at approximately 4:53 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer two babies were on the spectrum. Innocent children, couldn\u2019t have told on that man if they wanted to, and he still killed them,\u201d Simmers told CBS Pittsburgh.<\/a> \u201cA crime like that, what do you say? A person kills two innocent children, a pregnant woman and the people coming to try to help her.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mind-blowing to me to understand what was happening in that house while we were standing outside. The feeling of helplessness and knowing we couldn\u2019t do anything and she was right there,\u201d Simmers added.<\/p>\n

Mourners attend a vigil for the victims of the deadly shooting in Erie, Pa., on Oct. 10, 2026. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Evidence markers are scattered across the road after the deadly mass shooting on Oct. 9, 2026. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Little Amari\u2019anna\u2019s father, Juicesiyah Alexander Ezekiel, held back tears as he grieved the toddler\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my baby, bro, and he just took her,\u201d Ezekiel told Erie News Now. \u201cHer name was Amari\u2019anna. She\u2019s the most beautiful baby God could have created.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t even put this on my worst enemy,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s sickening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ezekiel revealed he had been fighting depression after surviving a homicide in Erie back in 2022 before moving away from the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so broken, man,\u201d he said. \u201cI left Erie to stay away from that lifestyle, and I come back and lose my daughter, lose my baby mom, lose who I was fighting to stay alive for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two women were found dead outside before police discovered several more victims inside the home on the East Side of Erie. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Police officers stand outside a home on Perry Street where nine family members were killed on Oct. 10, 2026, in Erie, Pa. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Police responded to the home after receiving reports of the shooting from the city\u2019s ShotsSpotter system.<\/p>\n

Two females, aged 37 and 51, were found outside in the street suffering from gunshot wounds when officers arrived at the home. <\/p>\n

The gunman barricaded himself inside the house and created a standoff with police as officials waited for a search warrant to enter the home, Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said during a press conference.<\/p>\n

Bystanders gather near the site of a reported shooting where multiple people were killed at a home on Perry St. in Erie, Pa., Oct. 10, 2026. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Eventually police entered the home and found Isiah, Amari\u2019anna and a 10-month-old girl on the first floor, Erie News Now reported.<\/p>\n

Stone was found dead alongside a 44-year-old woman and two men, 19 and 21, on the second floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was horrific. It was the worst scene I have ever experienced,\u201d Lorah said.<\/p>\n

The gunman died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n

Eight of the nine victims were related with the ninth identified as a family friend.<\/p>\n

Lorah believes \u201cmental health is at play here,\u201d but did not provide a motive behind the killings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania pregnant mother of two was expecting to give birth this week before she was among 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,39645,7075,28,6803,302],"class_list":["post-304318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-murder-suicide","tag-murders","tag-pennsylvania","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}