Philadelphia: Ex-Marine wanted in 6 slayings is found dead
December 17, 2014 02:49
A former Marine suspected of killing his ex-wife and five of her relatives has been found dead in the woods near his suburban Philadelphia home after a day-and-a-half manhunt that closed schools and left people on edge.
District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said on her official Facebook page that police found Bradley William Stone's body yesterday. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Stone, a 35-year-old Iraq War veteran locked in a custody dispute so bitter that his ex-wife feared for her life, went on a 90-minute shooting rampage before daybreak Monday at three homes a few miles apart, authorities said.
The killing spree set off the second major manhunt to transfix Pennsylvania in recent months. Eric Frein spent 48 days at large in the Poconos after the September ambush slaying of a state trooper.
As the manhunt dragged on, with SWAT teams making their way through neighbourhoods and the Philadelphia police sending in a heat-sensing helicopter, at least five schools within a few miles of Stone's Pennsburg home closed. Veterans' hospitals and other places tightened security.
Stone's former wife, 33-year-old Nicole Stone, was found dead in her apartment after a neighbour saw Stone fleeing around 5 am with their two young daughters, authorities said.
The girls were later found safe with Stone's neighbours.
Police went to two other homes and discovered five more people dead: Nicole Stone's mother, grandmother, sister, brother-in-law and 14-year-old niece. A 17-year-old nephew was wounded in the head, and Ferman said he was in "very serious" condition.
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