{"id":305264,"date":"2026-10-12T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305264\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:14:08","slug":"victims-of-pennsylvania-mass-shooting-included-pregnant-daughter-of-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305264\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims of Pennsylvania mass shooting included pregnant daughter of gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The victims of a mass shooting in northwest Pennsylvania<\/a> included the gunman\u2019s wife and pregnant daughter who was due to give birth on Monday, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Matthew Stone<\/a>, 45, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday after after opening fire at his home on Perry Street in Erie, Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook told NBC News on Monday.<\/p>\n

Victims included the shooter\u2019s wife Michelle Stone, 44, pregnant daughter Angelina K. Stone, 24, and sons Matthew Stone Jr. 21, and Jonathan Stone, 19, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n

Angelina Stone was carrying \u201can unborn fetus who was supposed to have been born today,\u201d Cook said.<\/p>\n

\"BystandersBystanders gather near the site of the shooting.Greg Wohlford \/ Erie-Times News via Reuters<\/p>\n

Two other unidentified children, a 5-year-old boy and a nearly 2-year-old girl, were also related the shooter and killed inside the house, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n

All six of those victims were found in inside the house, where they lived, while victims Twila A. Tanner, 51, and Lora Lee Roberts, 37, were fatally shot outside, Cook said.<\/p>\n

Roberts was Michelle Stone\u2019s sister and had come to the house Friday at the request of Angelina Stone, who needed a ride to the hospital, said the victim\u2019s friend Christine Tombaugh.<\/p>\n

\"LoraLora Lee Roberts.Courtesy Community of Caring<\/p>\n

Tanner was a friend and neighbor of Roberts and they lived just a few miles from the crime scene, according to Tombaugh.<\/p>\n

Roberts was active<\/a> in local homeless advocacy work, so answering a relative\u2019s call for help and bringing along a friend for assistance was typical of the victim\u2019s kindness, Tombaugh said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely, that\u2019s who she was,\u201d said Tombaugh, executive director of the homeless shelter Community of Caring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer passion in life was helping others. She had a giving spirit, a beautiful heart,\u201d Tombaugh said. \u201cGreat mom, just a valued friend. She had a heart for the homeless and people in need, just helping whoever she could. That was that was her passion.\u201d <\/p>\n

Juicesiyah Alexander Ezekiel<\/a>, father of the slain little girl, said he\u2019s struggling to understand why the elder Stone opened fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t even put this on my worst enemy man,\u201d Ezekiel told NBC affiliate WICU. \u201cIt\u2019s sickening.\u201d<\/p>\n

The little girl was going to turn 2 next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer name is Amari\u2019anna,\u201d Ezekiel said. \u201cShe\u2019s the most beautiful baby God could have created.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victims of a mass shooting in northwest Pennsylvania included the gunman\u2019s wife and pregnant daughter who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-305264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305264","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=305264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}