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The number of homicide victims in the Oct. 9 mass shooting at 722 Perry St. in Erie has officially grown to nine.
Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook on Oct. 13 said the unborn child of one of the victims, 24-year-old Angelina Stone, is counted as the victim of homicide, even though the office does not have a separate report on the child’s death.
Cook said the death is considered a homicide because the unborn child was over 16 weeks gestation. He said previously that Angelina Stone’s pregnancy was at full term, and Erie police reported previously that she was eight months pregnant.
Angelina Stone and her baby were killed along with her mother, two brothers, her two other young children, her aunt and a family friend in a shooting that occurred in and around 722 Perry St. on the late afternoon of Oct. 9. Authorities identified the other victims as Michelle Stone, 44; Jonathan Stone, 19; Matthew Stone Jr., 21; two young children, a 5-year-old boy and a 22-month-old girl, whose names have not been released by Cook or Erie police; Lora Roberts, 37; and Twila Tanner, 51.
Matthew Stone Sr., 45, the man authorities accuse of fatally shooting the others, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound when police entered the house. Cook ruled his death a suicide.
