Angelina Stone was eight months along with her baby boy Kyrie when the shooting started on Perry Street. She never got to hold him. Her five-year-old son Isiah Hodges and nearly two-year-old daughter Amari’anna died right there with her inside that house in Erie, Pennsylvania.
It was just after 5 p.m. on Friday, October 9, 2026. Police got the call about gunfire in the 700 block. They found two women already dead in the street. One was Lora Roberts, a mother of five who used to sit on the board at Community of Caring. She had come over trying to get a relative out safe. She did not make it.
Officers tried talking the man inside into coming out quiet. It did not work. When they went in they found more bodies. Young kids. Grown family members. Brothers Jonathan Stone and Matthew Stone were among them. The gunman lay dead too from a shot he put in himself.
Chief Rick Lorah called the whole scene the worst he had ever walked into. Mayor Daria Devlin sent word out to the families saying the city felt the weight of it. Most of the people who died lived in that house. They were tied by blood or close as blood.
Lora Roberts had spent years helping folks who had nowhere to sleep. That night she was just trying to help her own. Angelina’s kids will not grow up. Kyrie will not be born. The brothers who used to laugh and run around together are gone.
People on the block heard the shots and the screaming. Neighbors watched the police lights take over the street. Investigators are still sorting out exactly how it all lined up. Mental health talk is floating around but nothing firm yet.
The families left behind are picking up pieces that do not fit. Nine lives ended in one house on one Friday afternoon. Erie is quieter now but the holes are big.
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