Nicole Hill Stone was 33 when she was shot to death in her Harleysville, Pennsylvania apartment in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, December 15, 2014. Neighbors reported hearing breaking glass and gunshots; an autopsy found she died from multiple gunshot wounds. Nicole was a mother to two young daughters, Shannon and Kayla, and had been involved in a contentious custody dispute with her ex-husband, Bradley William Stone, who she had told friends she feared would kill her.

The killings were part of a multi-location rampage that day. Bradley Stone is reported to have first killed Nicole’s sister Patricia Flick, Patricia’s husband Aaron, and their 14-year-old daughter Nina at their Souderton home, then killed Nicole’s mother Joanne Gilbert and grandmother Patricia Hill at a Lansdale residence, before coming to Nicole’s apartment. After Nicole’s murder he reportedly left the two children with a neighbor and fled; a large manhunt followed. Two days later his body was found in woods near his home in Pennsburg and his death was ruled a suicide from a drug overdose. No arrests were made.