The man suspected of killing his family in the Pennsylvania area and fleeing to New Jersey Saturday will face criminal charges in each states including ones for murder.

The person charged in connect with the killings has been identified as Andre Gordon, 26.

He was detain and arrested in a manhunt, then barricade situation that ended in Trenton, N.J.

Gordon was charged with three counts of first- and second-degree murder, car jacking and other crimes.

The charges are in connection to the killings Saturday killings of Karen Gordon, 52; Kera Gordon, 13, and Taylor Daniel, 25, in Levittown.

Gordon essential carjacked vehicles two vehicle — to Philadelphia, then back to New Jersey — in his attacks, which occurred in two houses in the Philadelphia area.

 

 

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first carjacked a vehicle in Trenton then drove to Levittown, according to authorities. Once there, he entered a home with Karen Gordon, his stepmother, and Kera Gordon, his teen sister, police said.

Though Gordon fatally shot his two relatives, three other people in the house escaped and hid, according to investigators. Gordon then drove to another Levittown home, where he killed Daniel, the wife of his two children, and smacked Daniel’s mother with his rifle, police said, leading to the assault charge.

Gordon then carjacked a second vehicle in Morrisville and drove back to Trenton, where cops believed he barricaded himself on the first floor of a two-story residence.

However, Gordon was not actually inside the building and officers arrested him after he was spotted walking down a street nearby.

Several events in the region were canceled while Gordon was on the loose, including the Bucks County St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Gordon was held at Mercer County Correction Center on Sunday, with officials saying he would eventually be sent to Pennsylvania.

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