FALLS TOWNSHIP, Penn. — A man killed three people in their Philadelphia-area homes Saturday and was later arrested in New Jersey’s capital city following a major police response and hourslong standoff, authorities said.
Steve Wilson, police director for the city of Trenton, said the man was found near a house where he was believed to have barricaded himself and was taken into custody. He apparently escaped the perimeter around the home before it was set up, according to Wilson.
Wilson added that he did not believe the suspect was armed at the time. No one else was injured.
The suspect was identified earlier as 26-year-old Andre Gordon Jr. Authorities said he killed his stepmother, his teenage sister and the mother of his children in shootings that stretched into two homes in eastern Pennsylvania’s Falls Township in the morning, Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said.
Officials said they couldn’t yet speak to a motive for the attacks. While 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.
Police said Gordon was believed to be homeless. It was unclear whether he had an attorney or anyone else who could comment on his behalf.
The mayhem forced the cancellation of a St. Patrick’s Day parade and shut down a Sesame Street-themed amusement park. Authorities in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County issued a shelter-in-place order for some areas for several hours.
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