{"id":305572,"date":"2026-10-13T06:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305572\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T06:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:40:16","slug":"erie-shooting-officials-identify-gunman-victims-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305572\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie shooting: Officials identify gunman, victims \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ERIE, Pa. \u2014 Police in northwestern Pennsylvania have identified the gunman who killed eight people, including his wife and pregnant daughter, in Erie before turning the weapon on himself, authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook, the gunman was identified as Matthew Stone Sr., 45, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/timeline-of-erie-perry-street-mass-shooting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/timeline-of-erie-perry-street-mass-shooting\/\">WJET<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The victims included his wife, Michelle Stone, 44; the couple\u2019s daughter, Angelina Stone, 24; their sons, Matthew Stone Jr., 21, and Jonathan Stone, 19; Twila Tanner, 51, a family friend; and Lora Roberts, 37, another family friend and neighbor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Angelina Stone was eight months pregnant and was scheduled to give birth to a baby boy named Kyrie on Monday, family members told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/timeline-of-erie-perry-street-mass-shooting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/timeline-of-erie-perry-street-mass-shooting\/\">WJET<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The other two victims were identified as Angelina Stone\u2019s children &#8212; 22-month-old Amari\u2019anna,22 months old; and Isiah, 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police said the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/11\/is-erie-pennsylvania-safe-mass-shooting-police-investigate-what-we-know\/92205397007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z116255p117450l002150c117450e110750v116255d--96--b--96--&amp;gca-ft=107&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/11\/is-erie-pennsylvania-safe-mass-shooting-police-investigate-what-we-know\/92205397007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z116255p117450l002150c117450e110750v116255d--96--b--96--&amp;gca-ft=107&amp;gca-ds=sophi\">Erie Times-News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police were called after shots were fired on Friday at about 4:53 p.m. ET, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officers were at the scene in less than three minutes, Erie police Chief Rick Lorah told reporters. When officers arrived, they found Tanner and Roberts outside the residence and suffering from gunshot wounds, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/11\/is-erie-pennsylvania-safe-mass-shooting-police-investigate-what-we-know\/92205397007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z116255p117450l002150c117450e110750v116255d--96--b--96--&amp;gca-ft=107&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/11\/is-erie-pennsylvania-safe-mass-shooting-police-investigate-what-we-know\/92205397007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z116255p117450l002150c117450e110750v116255d--96--b--96--&amp;gca-ft=107&amp;gca-ds=sophi\">Erie Times-News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators believe the gunman killed six of the victims in the home first, before coming outside and killing the two women, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Stone Sr. then apparently went back inside the residence and shot himself, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Juicesiyah Alexander Ezekiel, father of the 22-month-old girl, said he was struggling to understand what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t even put this on my worst enemy,\u201d Ezekiel told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erienewsnow.com\/news\/father-mourns-death-of-daughter-following-mass-shooting-on-perry-street\/article_c895bde3-713f-4dd6-a31b-6dd016fa964e.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.erienewsnow.com\/news\/father-mourns-death-of-daughter-following-mass-shooting-on-perry-street\/article_c895bde3-713f-4dd6-a31b-6dd016fa964e.html\">WICU<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s sickening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators said they are trying to figure out a motive for the shooting. An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Pa. \u2014 Police in northwestern Pennsylvania have identified the gunman who killed eight people, including his wife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[125410,125306,31,136,138,137,37263,125409,125309,125406,125407,125305,11374,125408,125297,125308,28,71866,125399],"class_list":["post-305572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-amarianna","tag-angelina-stone","tag-crime","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-pennsylvania","tag-isiah","tag-jonathan-stone","tag-juicesiyah-alexander-ezekiel","tag-kyrie","tag-lora-roberts","tag-mass-shooting","tag-matthew-stone-jr","tag-matthew-stone-sr","tag-michelle-stone","tag-pennsylvania","tag-rick-lorah","tag-twila-tanner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305572","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=305572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}