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Juicesiyah Alexander Ezekiel is trying to make sense of the senseless.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t even put this on my worst enemy,\u201d said Ezekiel. \u201cIt\u2019s sickening.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Friday, his two-year-old daughter Amari\u2019anna was one of nine people who were murdered in a mass shooting at a home off of East 7th and Perry Streets.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, the gunman then committed suicide.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was my baby, bro, and he just took her,\u201d said Ezekiel. \u201cHer name was Amari\u2019anna. She\u2019s the most beautiful baby God could have created.\u201d<\/p>\n
His daughter\u2019s death, only adding to ongoing trauma.<\/p>\n
\u201cI already got depression,\u201d said Ezekiel. \u201cI survived a homicide in Erie, PA, back in 2022\u2026.I\u2019m dealing with all that on top of this now..\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Ezekiel, Angelina Stone\u2014who is the mother of his child\u2014was also killed, along with her unborn child, and her five-year-old son.<\/p>\n
Ezekiel tells Erie News Now the gunman was Stone\u2019s father.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was pregnant, about to have a baby in a couple of days and she had a daughter that was almost two, and her son Isaiah, who I believe was four or five,\u201d said Ezekiel\u2019s sister Lisa Simmers. \u201cThey are all just beautiful children and definitely did not deserve what happened to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
A GoFundME has been set up to help cover the funeral costs of Angelina and her children, whose lives were cut tragically short.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just want to make it right so that the respects are paid to them and they get the send-off they deserve,\u201d said Simmers. \u201cAt the end of the day, what happened will be remembered for years. This is not something that the city will ever forget.\u201d<\/p>\n
To donate to the GoFundME, visit:<\/p>\n