“If you find me dead, he did it.”

That’s what Valerie Morrow told NBC10 Investigative reporter Harry Hairston just hours before she died, allegedly at the hand of the Delaware County officer she feared.

Stephen Rozniakowski, an officer with the Colwyn Borough Police Department, wore a bulletproof vest when he kicked down the door of Morrow’s home on Glenfield Avenue in Glenolden, Pennsylvania around 9 p.m. Monday and began firing, according to investigators.

“He went there to execute the entire family, in my opinion. I have no doubt about that,” said Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan.

He shot and killed Morrow then shot Morrow’s teenage daughter in the arm before Morrow's husband Thomas Morrow, an off-duty Morton officer, returned fire.

After the shooting, Rozniakowski called in the shooting on his police-issued radio.

“I am the actor,” the 32-year-old told dispatchers.

Earlier in the day, Morrow reached out to Hairston because he previously covered past stalking allegations against Rozniakowski.

Morrow told Hairston she dated Rozniakowski for months before ending the relationship in August to reunite with her husband. In the weeks and months that followed, she said Rozniakowski called and texted her repeatedly with threatening messages. She agreed to come in for a Tuesday interview. but it never happened after she was killed in her own home.

At the time of the shooting, Philly police were working on an arrest warrant for Rozniakowski after he allegedly keyed Morrow’s car while parked at a Center City garage.

Before the fatal shooting, Rozniakowski called the Colwyn Borough Police Department to announce his resignation, investigators said.

About three hours before the shooting, Norwood Police served the suspect with an emergency court order to stay away from Morrow. At the time they took away his service weapon and asked if he had any other weapons but Whelan said Rozniakowski told them he didn’t.

He used a private weapon in Monday’s attack, said police.

Rozniakowski was taken to Crozer-Chester Medical Center where he remained in critical but stable condition Tuesday night, according to officials.

Whelan said he will consider pushing for the death penalty when Rozniakowski is tried.

Hairston put a spotlight on Rozniakowski earlier this year when the officer was placed on "administrative leave" after his former fiancee filed a protection from abuse order against him.

Plymouth Township Police arrested Rozniakowski and charged him with 25 counts of stalking and 50 counts of harassment for allegedly contacting his former fiancee with repeated phone and text messages.

"As a police officer, he knows the bounds and what the boundaries are and what the laws are," said Marty Mullaney, an attorney for Rozniakowski, told NBC10 in April. "I think his emotions got the best of him."

At that time, Rozniakowski had his police-issued gun taken away, Hills said.

The suspect was scheduled to appear in court Thursday on those charges.

Neighbors could hear a blast early Wednesday morning, moments before a West Philly home went up in flames.

Crews received reports of smoke and flames by the front door of a home along the 5400 block of West Girard Avenue around 2:25 a.m., according to reports.

The blaze, which authorities are calling suspicious, spread from the outside of the house to the second floor.

A firebombing may have caused the blaze to erupt, according to officials. An investigation is underway.

No one was hurt in the fire.

The 34-year-old Brooklyn woman who plowed her Ford Mustang into a Forever 21 in Herald Square and hit several pedestrians allegedly had a blood alcohol content that was more than twice the legal limit, according to a criminal complaint.

Stella Mednik was arraigned Monday night on a bevy of charges including driving while intoxicated, drug possession and assault after she allegedly slammed her car into the midtown store and pinned at least one pedestrian against the building in an apparent attempt to flee a crash on West 34th Street last week.

Bail for Mednik was set at $30,000. NBC 4 New York has reached out to the Legal Aid Society, which represented Mednik for her arraignment.

Police say Mednik, who law enforcement sources tell NBC 4 New York is an ex-lawyer with a suspended license, was driving her Mustang on West 34th Street when it rear-ended an SUV. She allegedly put the car in reverse in an apparent attempt to flee and hit a second car. After the second impact, police say the Mustang jumped the curb and plowed into the store and pedestrians.

A criminal complaint alleges that Mednik had a blood alcohol content of 0.18 at the time, more than twice the 0.08 threshold for drunk driving charges in New York.

Police also allegedly found a crack pipe in the floorboard of the Mustang and another in the trunk after the car hit the store, which injured Mednik, a passenger in her car, a Forever 21 employee and four other pedestrians.

Six people were seriously hurt and one had minor injuries; it wasn't clear how badly Mednik was hurt. All seven people were initially taken to Bellevue Hospital Center.

Police surrounded a Target in Northeast Philadelphia early Wednesday morning as burglars tried to escape the building.

Authorities captured two men around 5 a.m. as they tried to evade police by escaping through the roof of the big box store located on Roosevelt Boulevard near Red Lion Road in the city's Bustelton section shortly, according to reports.

Target's security spotted the robbers on surveillance video cameras shortly after the suspects tripped a silent alarm and notified police.

Officers surrounded the store as the suspects tried to escape through the building's roof.

But officials brought in a Philadelphia Fire Department ladder truck to block that possible escape route, while K-9 units searched the store's interior.

New Jersey drivers may one day have the option of showing officers their license on a smartphone.

State Sen. Thomas Kean Jr., R-Union, has proposed a bill requesting the Motor Vehicle Commission look into offering drivers an electronic license, NJ.com reports. 

The electronic license would not be mandated, so drivers would still be able to receive printed IDs.

Elyse L. Coffey, an MVC spokeswoman, tells NJ.com officials have not yet started to look into developing the proposed driver’s license app.

Concerns over the possibility of storing a license on a phone include hacking, fake licenses, smartphone theft and privacy. If the MVC accepts the proposal, officials would study a similar program that will roll out in Iowa sometime next year.

Authorities have charged a registered sex offender in New Jersey of sexually assaulting a teen during a driving lesson.

The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office says 42-year-old Jason Walsh of Bayville knew the 16-year-old girl.

Walsh is required to wear a GPS tracking device as a Tier 3 Megan's Law registrant. Police say they used that information to determine Walsh was at the location during the time and day where the girl reported the alleged incident took place.

Walsh is held on $150,000 bail.

Police have arrested a 25-year-old man they say helped a teenage boy kill a sixth-grade teacher in Lancaster.

Thomas Moore was charged Tuesday with homicide, burglary, conspiracy and other offenses in connection with the death of 32-year-old Nicole Mathewson.

A 16-year-old boy was charged Monday after Mathewson's body was found.

Police say the boy told them he and another person went to her home intending to steal items. Police say the two "applied force" to Mathewson, who taught for seven years at Brownstown Elementary School.

She died from several traumatic injuries.

The Associated Press generally doesn't identify juvenile criminal defendants.

Moore was taken to police headquarters for processing. The 16-year-old is jailed without bond.

Court records don't list lawyers for them.

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New Details in Police Officer Triple Shooting: “If you find me dead, he did it.” That’s what Valerie Morrow told NBC10 Investigative reporter Harry Hairston just hours before she died, allegedly at the hand of the Delaware County officer she feared. Authorities say Stephen Rozniakowski, an officer with the Colwyn Borough Police Department, wore a bulletproof vest when he kicked down the door of Morrow’s home on Glenfield Avenue in Glenolden, Pennsylvania around 9 p.m. Monday and began shooting.

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan says he believes Rozniakowski, who also shot Morrow's teenage daughter in the arm before he was shot by an off-duty officer, intended to kill the entire family.

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Montco Shooting Spree Suspect Found Dead: A former Marine accused of going on a shooting spree Monday, killing his ex-wife and five of her family members and seriously stabbing another was found dead in the woods near his Montgomery County home Tuesday. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said the accused, Bradley Stone, appeared to have killed himself with a knife that was found nearby his body.

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The former Marine believed to have killed his ex-wife and five of her family members and seriously stabbed another was found dead in the woods near his Montgomery County home Tuesday, after apparently killing himself with a knife, authorities say.

Bradley Stone appears to have killed himself with “self-inflicted cutting wounds to the center of his body," Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said. A knife was found nearby, she said.

Stone's body was found at 1:38 p.m. near West 4th Street and Schoolhouse Road North Hanover Township, Vetri Ferman said. That is about a half mile from his home, where SWAT teams had been methodically searching for him for the past two days.

Police also found a video recorded by Stone on a cellphone on or near his body, law enforcement sources said.

Stone, 35, had not been seen since just before 5 a.m. Monday as he rushed his screaming children out of their mother's apartment in Harleysville. Moments before, neighbors and police said he gunned down the woman, Nicole Hill Stone. She was the last of seven family members he shot or stabbed that morning, prosecutors said.

The children were left in his neighborhood in Pennsburg, and he fled, officials said. The girls, along with Stone's current wife and child, are now in protective custody, Vetri Ferman said.

Newly released search warrants offered more detail into how the victims were fatally wounded.

Stone Hill was shot in the face and head, according to the documents. Her mother Jo Anne Koder was shot and cut in the neck, and her grandmother Patricia Hill was shot in the arm and head. Stone Hill's sister Trish Flick was shot in the face and cut, brother-in-law Aaron Flick was shot in the head and hands; and 14-year-old niece Nina died of cutting wounds.

Autopsies were being conducted to determine official causes of death, the DA said.

The lone survivor is Stone Hill's 17-year-old nephew, Anthony Flick, who officials believe tried to fight off the attack. He suffered a "gaping skull fracture" and lacerations to his arms and fingers, according to court documents.

Despite being left injured in his Souderton home for some time as police worked to determine whether it were safe to enter, the teen survived. He remains in serious but stable condition and is surrounded by family at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, the DA said. Friends tell NBC10 he is expected to recover.

"We are gonna be here for him," friend and former eighth-grade sweetheart Sarah Sewell said. "We are his family now, because that is all he has left is us. We are going to be his family."

A GoFundMe account, Funds for Flick, was set up to help assist with Anthony's medical bills and has raised more than $8,500 in nearly a day.

The Souderton-Telford Rotary also announced plans to set up a fund for Stone's children.

Stone served eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and was briefly deployed to Iraq in 2008. Fellow Marines who served with him described the man as odd and said that he had a tumultuous relationship with his ex-wife. Hill Stone's neighbors and friends told NBC10 the woman warned Stone would kill her and they pointed to the couple's bitter custody dispute as motive for the killings. Prosecutors, however, have not released an official motive.

"We can speculate why. I could look at some of the court filings and say he wasn't getting his way and he was dissatisfied with that, but there's no excuse. There's no valid explanation. There's no excuse for snuffing out these six innocent lives and then injuring another child," Vetri Ferman said.

The two day manhunt for Stone sent eight SWAT teams rolling through at least four Montgomery County towns in assault gear and military-grade vehicles. They lobbed gas canisters and flash bangs into homes and searched neighborhoods and the woods. Federal agencies and police in other counties assisted in the search, schools were closed and neighbors spoke of the fear they were feeling.

A supposed sighting of a man who fit Stone's description involved in an attempted carjacking in Doylestown Monday night prompted lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders. In the end that report "did not appear to be valid," Vetri Ferman said.

The district attorney thanked the public for their assistance and patience.

"This is just a horrific tragedy that our community has had to endure," she said. "I think we're really numb from what we had to go through over the past two days."

Vetri Ferman could not say how long Stone's body was in the woods and when he might have died. She deferred to the coroner who picked up the man's body Tuesday evening and will determine a manner of death.

Contact Vince Lattanzio at 610.668.5532, vince.lattanzio@nbcuni.com or follow @VinceLattanzio on Twitter.

A teen brought an unloaded revolver to a Northeast Philadelphia high school on Wednesday over safety fears following a fight and lockdown the day before, his friend tells NBC10.

"He just wanted to scare people. That's why he brought it," said the 18-year-old Samuel Fels High School student who asked that his name be withheld over fears of retribution.

"People just want to fight in school, beef with people," he said.

He is the same teen that took a picture of the handgun after watching his good friend wave it around in the back of class this morning and then went to school administrators to tell them about it.

After seeing the photo, at 9:50 a.m., the school at 5500 Langdon Street in the Summerdale section of the city was locked down, school officials said. Police were called to the scene and a SWAT team dispatched.

Photos from inside the school's gym showed Philadelphia Police SWAT officers huddled near students who are sitting on the floor. One student said they witnessed police K9s being used to sweep the school.

Police took five teens, including the 18-year-old whistleblower, into custody for questioning.

A room-by-room search of the school turned up the revolver in a weight room trash can, officials said. The lockdown was lifted shortly after the discovery.

The 18-year-old who brought the gun to school has been placed under arrest, police said. No word yet on if he'll be charged.

Police said they have been keeping a close eye recently on the school and it's 1,100 member student body after an increase in fights and other issues.

Fels does have metal detectors, but not on its exit doors, school officials said. They are now trying to determine how the teen got the gun into the school.

A Delaware County doctor is in hot water after a three month-long investigation revealed an alleged "pill mill" being run out of his Media, Pa. practice.

Dr. Lawrence Wean was arrested Wednesday following an investigation into the doctor's practices by undercover detectives from multiple agencies in Delaware County.

Following the three month investigation, it was determined that Wean was operating a pill mill out of his office on Baltimore Pike, where he's been practicing for nearly two decades, said police. He also allegedly wrote prescriptions for cash, according to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan.

Wean was arraigned on multiple charges in a Media courthouse Wednesday afternoon. His bail was set at 10-percent of $500,000. He remains behind bars, unable to post bail, police said.

Students at Princeton University in New Jersey are reeling following three reported sex assaults on campus.

All three sex assault were reported to authorities at the Ivy League school this past weekend as students prepared to head home for the holidays, said police.

Two of the alleged assaults happened along Prospect Avenue, home to the school's "Eating Clubs." One student was fondled at one of the clubs last Friday, another within the last month, according to reports.

A third student also filed a report last weekend claiming she was sexually assaulted while incapacitated during the 2012-2013 school year.

Before the assault claims were made Saturday and Sunday, Princeton had a total of two sex assault claims for the year, according to school officials.

"You wouldn't think that stuff like that would ever happen here," said said research assistant Damaris Graeupner.

The reported sex assaults come a little more than a month after Princeton agreed to review its handling of sexual assault cases over the last three years after the government determined it failed to respond quickly enough to complaints of sexual violence.