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Search intensifies for gunman who killed 6

A woman who told neighbors she feared her ex-husband would kill her was among six people found fatally shot in three Philadelphia homes, and her Marine veteran former husband was on the run.

Suspect Bradley Michael Stone, 35, remained at large yesterday, causing one local school district to close schools as a precaution. Residents of nearby communities were asked to shelter in place temporarily late on Monday as an intense manhunt spread to their areas.

His former wife, 33-year-old Nicole Stone, was found dead after a neighbor saw Stone fleeing around 5am on Monday with their two young daughters.

Police then made the grim discovery of five people killed in two other houses: Stone’s sister, brother-in-law and 14-year-old niece were dead. A 17-year-old nephew was left clinging to life. And her mother and grandmother had been fatally shot.

Brad Stone and his ex-wife had been locked in a court fight over their children’s custody since she filed for divorce in 2009.

“She would tell anybody who would listen that he was going to kill her and that she was really afraid for her life,” said neighbor Evan Weron.

Neighbors alerted authorities after seeing Bradley Stone racing away with the children. The girls later were found safe with his neighbors.

The rampage started at the home of Brad Stone’s former sister-in-law and ended about 90 minutes later at Nicole Stone’s apartment in a nearby town.

Nicole Stone’s sister, Patricia Flick, her sister’s husband, Aaron Flick, and the couple’s 14-year-old daughter, Nina Flick, were killed in the first wave of violence. Their 17-year-old son, Anthony Flick, was pulled from the house with a head wound and was taken in an armored vehicle and then by helicopter to a Philadelphia hospital for treatment.


 

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