The manhunt for a former U.S. Marine who went on a shooting rampage ended as police reportedly found him near his home dead. Police say the Suspect, Bradley William Stone, 35, of Pennsburg, PA. was found in the woods approximately half a mile from his home of an apparent suicide.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told reporters  at a news conference, the suspect died of “self-inflicted cutting wounds.” A knife was found nearby, Ms. Ferman added, SWAT team members found Mr. Stone’s body about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Montgomery county schools have been cancelled for the last several days as federal and local police have scoured the area looking for Stone. residents were also asked to shelter in place as police searched for the gunman.

The motive for the shooting appears to be a domestic incident, the first victim was Stones ex-wife, also found at the multiple crime scenes were the bodies of Stones ex-mother in law, ex-grand mother in law, ex-sister in law, her husband, their 14 year old daughter, the lone survivor at this point is their 17 year old son.

According to police, the violence erupted in Salford Township, a suburb about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia, sometime between 4 and 5 am Monday. Police received calls from residents of the Pheasant Run apartments reporting shots being fired.

Police converged on the area and made entry into an apartment, they found the ex-wife of Stone, dead inside the second-floor apartment. A neighbor who witnessed the commotion told police that a male had taken several children after the shots were fired.

“I heard the kids say, ‘Mommy no. I want my mom.’ And I heard [the suspect] say ‘Let’s go. We have to go now. We’re leaving,’” a neighbor told reporters. Moments later, the woman saw the children and a man running to a parked car outside.

The neighbor added, “I opened the window and I asked him ‘Is everything OK?’ He just looked at me and said ‘She’s hurt pretty bad. We have to leave. She’s hurt.’ And he just got in the car and left.” The children were eventually located safe at a neighbor’s home.

Police responded to reports of a shooting in Lansdale, approximately eight miles from where the woman was found dead earlier, police found at least two more victims inside a home along W. Fifth and Pierce streets.

As the manhunt for the shooter began, Police in Souderton surrounded a home where they believed the suspect was. For several hours SWAT team members made multiple attempts to make contact with a person they saw moving inside, Towamencin Township Police Chief Paul Dickinson said.

When SWAT team members entered the home they did not find Stone. Four more additional victims were found, three of which were deceased. They did find a male who was critically injured, but alive, suffering from a gunshot wound, officials said. Paramedics brought in a medical helicopter and flew the victim to Thomas Jefferson Hospital’s trauma center in Philadelphia where the victim was reported to have critical injuries.

Stones vehicle was recovered Monday with his wallet and cell phone inside. It has been reported that Stone served in Iraq for three months in 2008.