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Investigators still don’t know why family patriarch Matthew Stone Sr.<\/a> gunned down his wife, their three children, two grandchildren and two women who had rushed to the home and were shot outside, Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

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