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 The manhunt for Bradley William Stone, 35, focused on and around
Pennsburg, about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Philadelphia, where
residents were advised to remain indoors with their doors locked,
the Montgomery County district attorney said.
Stone, who lives in Pennsburg, was a suspect in the shooting deaths
on Monday of his ex-wife, his former mother-in-law, former
grandmother-in-law, former sister-in-law and two other family
members, District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told journalists.
"As we stand here right now, we don't know where he is," she said.
Stone took his two young daughters from his ex-wife's home but left
them safe with a neighbor, Ferman said.
It was Pennsylvania's second recent high-profile manhunt after a
seven-week chase to capture survivalist Eric Frein, 31, accused of
killing a state trooper in a sniper attack in September outside a
state police barracks.
 Ferman said Stone sometimes uses a cane or walker, but it was not
clear if he needed them to get around.
Upper Perkiomen schools in the Pennsburg area would be closed on
Tuesday, the district said.
The search for Stone turned on Monday evening to neighboring Bucks
County, where a man walking his dog was confronted by a
knife-carrying man who tried to take his car keys.
The dog walker was armed and fired several shots at the suspect.
Police in Doylestown Township, about 24 miles from Pennsburg, say
the man fit Stone's description.
Media reported Stone suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
NBC said he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 2002,
deployed at least once to Iraq and was honorably discharged in 2011.
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He was believed to have gone on a shooting spree in three towns,
first killing his ex-wife's sister, husband and 14-year-old daughter
in Souderton around 3:30 a.m. ET, the district attorney said. A
17-year-old son survived but was wounded and hospitalized, she said.
About an hour later, police received a hang-up call to 911 pointing
them to a home in Lansdale, Ferman said. There they found Stone's
former mother-in-law and former grandmother-in-law dead, she said.
About a half hour later, police received an emergency call from a
neighbor of Stone's ex-wife Nicole, 33, in Lower Salford, Ferman
said. Police found her shot to death, she said.
(Additional reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst and Dan Whitcomb; Editing
by Bernadette Baum, Leslie Adler, Jonathan Oatis, Steve Orlofsky,
Clarence Fernandez and Tom Heneghan)
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