An “extremely dangerous” suspect was on Saturday taken into custody in New Jersey after allegedly shooting dead three family members, authorities said, following an hours-long effort to detain him.
Andre Gordon, 26, “surrendered peacefully,” Trenton Police Department spokesperson Lisette Rios said, after a trail of violence that triggered shelter-in-place orders in two states.
Gordon, who is believed to be homeless, began the day by carjacking a vehicle in Trenton before driving about 65km to the northern Philadelphia suburb of Levittown, authorities said.
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There, the suspect killed two people — identified as his 52-year-old stepmother and his 13-year-old sister, police said.
Three others, including a minor, managed to hide “as he went through the house searching for them,” Bucks County, Pennsylvania District Attorney Jennifer Schorn told a briefing.
The suspect then drove to a nearby residence where he broke in before shooting and killing a 25-year-old woman — who Schorn said was the mother of his two children — before bludgeoning her mother with the butt of his rifle. She is expected to recover.
SECOND CARJACKING
Driving to a nearby discount store, the suspect carjacked a 44-year-old man before fleeing. The man was not injured, Falls Township, Pennsylvania Sheriff Nelson Whitney said.
He then drove across the state line back to Trenton, where police believed he had barricaded himself in a three-story house.
Whitney had said the suspect was believed to be armed with an AR-15 style assault rifle and police described him as “extremely dangerous.”
For several hours they appealed to him to surrender, after SWAT officers evacuated people in the home through a second-story window.
“Andre, get away from the windows. We know you’re inside, if you’d like to surrender, dial 911 now,” police said over a loudspeaker. “You’re a young man, you have too much to live for.”
NEAR ESCAPE
Later on Saturday, Gordon was “located at another location in Trenton,” Rios said.
Gordon was uninjured and walking along a street when a patrol officer approached him, and had apparently slipped out of the house before police had completed setting up a perimeter, Trenton Police Director Steve Wilson said.
Officials said they could not 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,” Whitney said.
Additional reporting by AP
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