LEVITTOWN, Pa.—A man faces murder charges in Pennsylvania and carjacking and weapons charges in New Jersey after allegedly killing three family members, carjacking vehicles in both states and evading law enforcement for hours as police mobilized in two states, authorities said Sunday.
Andre Gordon Jr., 26, is charged in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with three counts of first- and second-degree murder, aggravated assault, robbery, and other charges, according to court documents. In New Jersey, Mr. Gordon is charged with first-degree carjacking and weapons offenses, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in a statement Sunday.
“We will pursue justice for the victims and hold the defendant accountable for his reprehensible actions,” Mr. Platkin said.
Court documents in Pennsylvania don’t list an attorney for Mr. Gordon and a number listed in his name wasn’t in service. New Jersey authorities said they had no information as yet on a defense attorney for Gordon in that state.
Mr. Gordon carjacked a vehicle in Trenton around 8:40 a.m. Saturday before driving to Levittown in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, and killing his stepmother and sister, authorities said. He then drove to a second location in Levittown and killed the mother of his two children, authorities said.
The victims were identified by Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn on Saturday as the suspect’s 52-year-old stepmother, Karen Gordon; and his 13-year-old sister, Kera Gordon; and 25-year-old Taylor Daniel, the mother of his two children, who were present at the time of the shooting in that home.
He then carjacked a second vehicle in Morrisville and returned to Trenton, authorities said. Police surrounded a home for hours in the belief that he was there, but Mr. Gordon apparently slipped out before the police cordon went up. He was arrested at around 5 p.m., unarmed, when he was spotted walking down a street a few blocks away, police said.
Officials in Pennsylvania said they couldn’t yet speak to a motive for the attacks. While Mr. Gordon had had some minor brushes with the law, they were “nothing that would indicate that anything like this would happen,” Falls Township Police Chief Nelson Whitney said at a news conference.
The mayhem forced the cancellation of a St. Patrick’s Day parade and shut down a Sesame Street-themed amusement park, and a num
Authorities in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County issued a shelter-in-place order for some areas for several hours.
Mr. Gordon is currently being held is being lodged at the Mercer County Correction Center. Trenton Police Director Steve Wilson said Gordon would be extradited to Pennsylvania “at some point.”ber of other businesses elected to close as well, authorities said.
Frustrated by the rising number of violent crimes targeting University of California at Berkeley students around their campus, a group of parents is taking the matter into their own hands.
SafeBears, a non-profit organization that describes itself as comprising “1,300+ Cal parents and community allies working to improve safety for UC Berkeley students,” has launched a pilot program to increase patrol forces near campus, as both university and city police departments are struggling with a shortage of manpower.
The parent-funded program has raised more than $40,000 to hire six private “safety ambassadors” to patrol the public areas near the campus during night and early morning hours from March 6 through March 23. They will not enter university property, but will stick to public areas, including public streets and sidewalks.
“I think a lot of people are breathing a sigh of relief, because people are rattled,” SafeBears President Sagar Jethani told The Epoch Times. “There has been so much violent crime against Cal students lately, that I think everyone realized that the situation needs to change.”
A father of two boys attending UC Berkley, Mr. Jethani said he didn’t expect to have to worry so much about his children’s safety when he sent them to one of the most prestigious schools in the country.
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