remains under investigation<\/a>, with police only suggesting mental health could have been a factor. Investigators said they were interviewing relatives to determine what may have happened.<\/p>\nThe mass shooting unfolded shortly before 5 p.m. on Friday in a home on the east side of the lakeside city about 100 miles southwest of Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Investigators told reporters that they had reviewed footage that showed gunshots were fired in the home before Roberts and Tanner, appearing \u201cdistressed,\u201d began banging on the door of the house, police said.<\/p>\n
Angelina Stone shared ultrasound photos of her unborn son Kyrie on Facebook on Sept. 25, 2026. Facebook\/Dej Shanti<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old killer came outside and shot them dead before going back into the house, where he shot himself dead in an upstairs area, according to authorities<\/p>\n
Cops rushed over to the home and arrived at a horror scene.<\/p>\n
Roberts and Tanner were found dead outside and inside they discovered Isaiah and his younger sister Amari\u2019anna\u2019s bodies on the first floor.<\/p>\n
People gather at a memorial outside a home in Erie, Pa., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, where a grandfather killed eight people. AP Photo\/Ted Shaffrey<\/p>\n
Stone Sr. killed eight people before turning the gun on himself, cops said. YourErie<\/p>\n
Two women and two men were found dead in a stairwell and the body of the shooter was found upstairs, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was horrific. It was the worst scene I have ever experienced,\u201d Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said at an emotional press conference.<\/p>\n
Roberts was a frequent visitor to the house who had been helping out during her niece and neighbor Angelina\u2019s pregnancy, while Tanner was the only non-relative caught up in the violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harrowing video captured the moment people screamed and ran for their lives as gunshots rang out from from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,136,138,137,12331,39645,7075,28,302],"class_list":["post-305822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-crime","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-mass-shootings","tag-murder-suicide","tag-murders","tag-pennsylvania","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305822","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=305822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}