{"id":2200446,"date":"2024-03-16T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-who-killed-family-members-in-pennsylvania-barricaded-in-new-jersey-home-in-standoff-with-swat\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:23:33","slug":"suspect-who-killed-family-members-in-pennsylvania-barricaded-in-new-jersey-home-in-standoff-with-swat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-who-killed-family-members-in-pennsylvania-barricaded-in-new-jersey-home-in-standoff-with-swat\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Pennsylvania family homicide entrenched in New Jersey home, engaged in standoff with SWAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspect-who-killed-family-members-in-pennsylvania-barricaded-in-new-jersey-home-in-standoff-with-swat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2200446&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Trail of \u2063Tragedy: Pennsylvania Shootings Lead to NJ Standoff<\/h2>\n<p>In a harrowing series of events that unfolded on a seemingly \u200dpeaceful Saturday morning in Falls \u200cTownship, Pennsylvania, the community was shaken \u2062to\u200c its core. <strong>Three lives were claimed in two separate shootings<\/strong>, leading to \u200da tense\u200b standoff\u2063 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-recent-failures-of-green-energy-policies\/\" title=\"3 Recent Failures of Green Energy Policies\">neighboring state<\/a>, with a suspect barricaded in New Jersey after reportedly taking hostages.<\/p>\n<h3>Chaos Unfolds in Falls \u200bTownship<\/h3>\n<p>Local authorities rushed to the \u200dscene at Viewpoint Lane, their arrival painted \u200cagainst \u2062the \u2064backdrop of an urgent 911\u200d call placed before 9 a.m. The shooter, \u200dAndre Gordon, 26, had\u2062 forced his way into \u200ba family home, \u2063tragically ending the lives of three relatives, including 52-year-old\u200b stepmother Karen Gordon and \u206313-year-old \u200dsister Kera \u2063Gordon. Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn \u2062delivered this sobering confirmation to NBC News.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMultiple others, including a minor,\u2062 were inside the home and hiding as the\u200b violence unfolded.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the assailant&#8217;s\u2062 reign of terror didn&#8217;t\u200d end there\u2014as he moved to Edgewood \u200dLane \u2064in \u2064Levittown,\u200c where a 25-year-old woman, the mother of his two \u2064children, became another victim of his rampage.<\/p>\n<h3>The Pursuit Crosses State Lines<\/h3>\n<p>Following a \u2064bold carjacking outside a local Dollar \u200bGeneral, the suspect fled Pennsylvania&#8217;s borders, leading law \u2062enforcement on a frantic chase. By 11:38 a.m., they \u2064tracked \u200bhim\u200b to \u200dTrenton, New Jersey. There, \u2063Gordon ensconced\u200d himself \u2063within a residential property, initially taking hostages.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, New Jersey law \u2062enforcement officials reported to CNN that <strong>all residents\u2063 have been safely evacuated<\/strong> \u2063 from the fraught\u200d scene.<\/p>\n<h3>Trenton \u200cPolice and SWAT \u200din Standoff<\/h3>\n<p>On Phillips Ave in Trenton, the standoff ensues with law enforcement surrounding the house where the suspect is\u200d holed \u200bup. \u201cThe residents have\u200d been\u2062 successfully evacuated with no injuries,&#8221; stated Trenton Police Detective Lt. \u200cLisette Rios. \u200d&#8221;We have federal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idalia-path-tracker-watch-live-where-is-the-hurricane-and-where-will-it-make-landfall\/\" title=\"Track Idalia's path LIVE: Hurricane location and landfall predictions.\">state\u200b resources<\/a>\u200c on standby as the situation \u2064progresses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A\u200c diverse \u200dcoalition of federal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-back-the-blue-texas-house-passes-bill-cracking-down-on-cities-that-defund-police\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Texas House Passes Bill Cracking Down On Cities That Defund Police\">state law enforcement<\/a> is \u200dpresent\u2014ATF,\u2064 NJSP, Mercer County Rapid Response Team, and Mercer County Homicide Task Force, not to mention the Trenton \u2064Police Department \u2064itself.<\/p>\n<h3>A \u2064Suspect With No Fixed Abode<\/h3>\n<p>According to \u2062Middletown Township police, Gordon\u2014now embroiled in a standoff\u2064 with SWAT\u2014leads a transient existence but\u2064 has \u2063known connections to both Bucks County and Trenton, calling\u200c the latter his primary residence.<\/p>\n<h3>Armed and Dangerous<\/h3>\n<p>Falls \u200bTownship Police Chief Nelson Whitney painted a grim picture\u2063 of the\u200b armed\u2064 suspect, mentioning an \u201cAR-15 style assault rifle\u201d used in \u200dthe shootings and alerting the public that Gordon may possess additional weapons, as \u200dreported by CNN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a developing story and will be\u2064 updated as new information emerges. For more\u200d details,\u200c follow the ongoing coverage.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three killed in Falls Township, PA, shootings; suspect Andr\u00e9 Gordon, 26, now holed up in New Jersey home after initial hostage situation, say officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2667,"featured_media":2200447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24076677315561-1024x682.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24076677315561-1024x682.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}