WINFIELD TWP — Everyone was shocked Thursday morning to learn that five adults and an unborn child were killed the night before in a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg, next door to Pittsburgh.

But for Carol Kroll of Winfield Township, the news was nothing short of devastating.

“Those families ... I don’t wish that pain on anyone,” says Kroll, who knows that pain like no other. Her husband, John, died in a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg 16 years earlier almost to the day.

On television Thursday morning was a photograph of John’s killer: Ronald Taylor.

Taylor, 55, has been on death row at the State Correctional Institute in Graterford since a jury convicted him of three murders in 2001.

A black man from Pittsburgh, Taylor only wrote about how much he hated whites, Jews, Asians, Italians, police and journalists until March 1, 2000.

Then, in a rage, he shot five white men, killing three, including Carol’s husband of nearly three decades.

John Kroll, 55, a carpenter, had been hired to fix Taylor’s apartment door.

Kroll, 69, has had 16 years to try to cope with the phone call she received that morning. But yet there on Thursday morning it was fresh again ... pain, anger and remorse ... flooding back with the news of the latest shooting. Media, she said, used Taylor’s photograph to compare the two tragedies.

“When stuff like this happens, it takes you right back,” she said. “Nothing has changed.”

“All those memories of that morning. They all come back. It never goes away. The shock and the pain it’s always there.”