After Armone Stanley was reportedly shot 19 times in the stairwell of his Philadelphia apartment, his 3-year-old daughter was left alone with his body for about 30 hours. NBC 6's Justin Finch reports. (Published Wednesday, Oct 23, 2013) 
 
 A South Florida family is still struggling to comprehend how their 3-year-old relative remained trapped alone with her father's body for more than a day after he was gunned down in the stairwell of his Philadelphia apartment. 
 
 Armone Stanley, a 34-year-old dad of two, was reportedly shot 19 times in cold blood last Wednesday, while his young daughter Aryana helplessly hid in a closet. Stanley, who was carrying luggage downstairs when someone opened fire, was preparing to send his daughter back home on a flight to South Florida. The young girl stayed at the residence for 30 hours, until the family in Florida grew worried and called the landlord for help. 
 
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 Too young to really understand what happened, Aryana told police and her family what she saw. Her great-grandmother Eloise Bryant still remembers what she said. 
 
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 "'My daddy was sleep, and I went down to wake him up, but he wouldn't wake up,"' Bryant said. 
 
 Bryant wonders why help did not arrive sooner. 
 
 "Why didn't nobody walk down the stairs and see him lying there? He stayed there all day and all night, and my baby was up there in the closet hungry,” she said. 
 
 Over the weekend, Pennsylvania authorities released Aryana to her mother, Anna Cassieri. 
 
 Stanley had been living in Philadelphia for about three years, and while there, he was arrested for his ties to an identity theft ring. But just as his family says he was turning his life around, it was tragically cut short. 
 
 "It hurt me so bad, I still can't stop crying," Bryant said. 
 
 Stanley's wake is set for Friday, and his funeral will be Saturday at noon. Both events will be held at the True Tabernacle Church in Fort Lauderdale. 
 
 Philadelphia detectives said they continue to track leads they hope will bring them to Stanley's killer. 
 
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 More than 24 hours later, on Thursday morning, a landlord for the otherwise unoccupied building at 110 N. 49th St. found Stanley dead on the landing. 
 
 From upstairs, he heard the little girl's voice: "Daddy, Daddy." 
 
 While the child, found hungry and traumatized, has been taken into temporary care by the Department of Human Services, police are searching for a motive and suspects in what they described as an execution-style killing. 
 
 "This was more of a personal attack," said Capt. James Clark, the commander of the department's Homicide Unit. 
 
 Lt. Philip Riehl, whose squad is investigating the murder, added, "There was a clear intent to kill. They stood over this guy and emptied a gun into him." 
 
 Riehl said Stanley, 34, had a long criminal record in Florida. In 2011, Stanley was charged in Bensalem with more than 300 counts of identity theft and related charges, and sentenced to up to 23 months in prison. 
 
 Police recovered 9mm bullet casings from the scene. The child is awaiting her mother's arrival from Florida. "It's just tragic that a 3-year-old girl had to find her father this way," Riehl said. 
 
 Anyone with information about the crime is encouraged to call the Homicide Unit at 215-686-3334. The city offers a $20,000 reward in return for information leading to an arrest in any Philadelphia homicide.
– A horrifying story out of Philadelphia, where a 34-year-old man was shot dead in a stairwell while his 3-year-old daughter was in his apartment upstairs ... and was left alone with her father's body for more than a day. At some point, the toddler went to her father; she told police, "My daddy was sleep [sic], and I went down to wake him up, but he wouldn't wake up," her great-grandmother tells NBC Miami. Armone Stanley had been carrying luggage downstairs last Wednesday, getting ready to put little Aryana on a flight back to her family in Florida, when he was shot 19 times. Aryana was alone with the body for about 30 hours, until her family in Florida figured out something was wrong and got the landlord to check on the situation. She reportedly hid in a closet initially and was found huddled in her father's bed, the Orlando Sun-Sentinel reports. Stanley had been arrested in 2011 for ties to an identity theft ring, but his family says he was turning things around, and Aryana's mom describes him as a "good dad" who phoned Aryana daily. But the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that police do think the execution-style murder was, as a commander says, "a personal attack."